A capella wonderful

March 21, 2009

A capella wonderful

Whatever else you’re doing, tune right now to WERS. If you’re not in Boston, here’s the online stream. The show is All Acapella, and it’s freaking amazing. There is so much outstanding a capella music being made right now, by college students alone. Stevie Wonder’s “As” is playing now, sung by the Stanford University Everyday People. Before that was “Some Kind Of Wonderful” by UMass Amherst Doo Wop Shop. Just great, great music and performances that are flat-out astonishing. Talk about good Web integration: here’s the current playlist…

What’s On Now

Current Show: All A Cappella

Most Recent Songs: (View Full Playlist)

4:05 pm		“As” by Stanford University Everyday People CARA 2000
4:03 pm		“Some Kind Of Wonderful” by UMass Amherst Doo Wop Shop Black Friday
3:58 pm		“Every LittleThing She Does Is Magic” by Washington University Mosaic Whispers Defrosted
3:55 pm		“Elenor Rigby” by Tonic Sol Fa Style

And that’s on top of a Backwoods show I heard this morning on WMBR. Not much Web integration, but still a great station.

Art, music

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5 responses to “A capella wonderful”

Chip

March 21, 2009 at 5:16 pm

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
Leonard Bernstein

But few would want to hear me sing …

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smick

March 22, 2009 at 5:03 am

My roommates in college were into this. I tried doing percussion one day for them when they were serenading some sorority on campus. it was pretty cool. I did a bad job, but the kids love it. And it’s fun for them to hear popular songs that way.

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Mauricio

March 22, 2009 at 10:55 am

Thanks, Doc. I’m in Beijing, China which is kind of far, but I’m listening now and I think I’ll come back to this frequency. It sounds like they’re playing Persian contemporary music now.

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Doc Searls

March 22, 2009 at 12:54 pm

Yes, Mauricio, WERS’ music programming is very eclectic. But it’s almost always Good Stuff.

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Garment Of Praise Quartet

March 31, 2009 at 11:28 am

Very nice to see someone else feature a cappella music!

Thank you.

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