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START HERE β What This Place Is and How It Works
Welcome to A Cappella. I'm Denis. I've spent 40+ years singing, directing, competing, coaching, and producing a cappella events across the world. I built this place because it didn't exist β and it should. This is a gathering place for anyone who sings with their voice, or wants to. Barbershop, jazz, gospel, contemporary, doo-wop, classical, world music, vocal percussion β every style lives here. There is no hierarchy. What this place IS: A community where singers become groups. Where you can share what you're working on without fear of judgment, find people to sing with, learn from each other, and feel the thing that happens when voices lock in together. What this place is NOT: A marketplace. A competition. A place to pitch your coaching business, sell your course, or promote your gig. There are other places for that. THE 5 RULES 1. Sanctuary, not marketplace. No pitching, no advertising, no self-promotion. If you have something to sell, this isn't the room. 2. ALL styles welcome. Barbershop, jazz, gospel, doo-wop, contemporary, classical, spiritual, world. Every tradition has something to teach the rest. Treat them all with respect. 3. No musical snobbery. This is the big one. The moment someone implies their style is superior to another, they've missed the point of singing entirely. Don't be that person. 4. Expression over performance. Singing is the same impulse as crying, speaking, or sighing β it's expression. You don't need to be "good enough" to participate here. You need to be willing to open your mouth. 5. Community matchmaking, not classifieds. The "Find Your Group" board is for connecting with other humans, not posting ads. Tell us who you are, where you are, what you're looking for. We'll help you find your people. WHERE THINGS LIVE π€ Welcome & Introductions β Your first stop. Tell us who you are, what you sing, where you're from. π¬ General Discussion β The main hangout. Anything a cappella. Questions, opinions, debates, stories. πΆ Share Your Singing β Post recordings, videos, performances. This is the soul of the community. Be brave.
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Lucky 7!
Welcome @Darren Rust ! And Check out his @darrenrust_mixes YouTube Channel! Happy to have you here brother!
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When you strip it down to just voices, there's nowhere to hide β and everything to gain.
Watch this. The Isaacs β a family gospel group β just stood in a room in Nashville honoring Bill and Gloria Gaither and sang "You're The Inspiration" with nothing but their voices. No band. No track. No safety net. π₯ https://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=GYZ66LNX Now, you might be thinking: "That's a gospel group. I sing barbershop / jazz / pop / whatever." Doesn't matter. What you just heard is what this community is about. A family. Four voices. One room. Pure expression. I've been doing this for a while... I still get stopped dead by something like this β not because it's technically perfect, but because it's true. That's the thing about a cappella that nobody in the instrument world fully understands: when there's no click track, no chord from a piano to lean on, no bass guitar holding the floor β the human voice either delivers or it doesn't. The Isaacs delivered. Here's what I notice every time a performance like this hits me: It's not about the song. "You're The Inspiration" is a power ballad from 1984. It's a Chicago song. It's secular, it's commercial, it's been in every wedding playlist ever made. And yet in this context, four voices in tribute to two people they love β it's sacred. The song became a vessel. That transformation only happens in a cappella. That's our superpower. Sunday question: What's a performance β ANY style, ANY era β that stopped you dead the first time you heard it? The one that made you think "I want to do THAT"? Drop it below. I want to know what's in this community's DNA. p.s. also, I want that mic!
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My first "real" chorus
I had been a barbershopper for about 45 minutes with a chorus on the South Shore of Montreal (South Shore Saints) so when they said this "Big chorus from Texas" that "always wins international" so at 22 I went sure! Drove up to Toronto and with my 75$ ticket in hand (it was 30 years ago) sat at the Roy Thompson Hall and got ready for it. This was their first song. I was not ready.... when Jim Clancy stood in front of the 155 men on 8 rows spreading a mile wide on center stage it made the organ look small. The director raised his hands and, they ALL grew an inch making the risers creek under the weight... I swear - for the first 20 seconds, I thought it was a recording... Vocal Majority Dir: Jim Clancy
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