rock your voices

In addition to being a band nerd, I was also a choir geek in high school (although I would never have admitted this in college, because by then I was instrumentalist snob and had to alienate myself from the vocalists and make them aware that their's was the lesser art form). Anyways, my memories of faulty choir risers, ill-fitting robes, and perma-smile show choir performances came rushing back to me this month at the BSO as we sought to engage an audience of a cappella lovers for our Rockapella concert.

Turns out a cappella is really big here, because every university has like 5 a cappella groups for every social circle imaginable, from the Jewish a cappella group Kol Sasson to Legally Sound, whose members are all law students. I have no idea if it has always been this way, or maybe it's gaining popularity become Glee has bestowed this "hot" new image on young vocal groups.

Well, in order to engage this population niche, we at the Baltimore Symphony created an a cappella competition, called Rock Your Voices, in which the winning a cappella ensemble gets to present a pre-concert performance for the Rockapella concert. We invited a cappella groups to submit a YouTube video featuring one of their performances, and now the public can vote for the winning ensemble on BSO's Facebook page.

Actually, you yourself can vote until around noon EST on Tuesday November 8th -> Please do.

Faux Paz - Current front runner in the Rock Your Voices competition as of 11/6