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by Line Groth Riis (Postyr Project) This is an answer to Christopher who, after reading Tine’s blog, raised a question about which intonation and blend exercises Postyr use. When it comes to intonation, there are different issues you should be aware of/ take care of: 1) The colours of the vowels should be similar 2) [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog founder Naturally 7 has become the biggest vocal music act of our times. Here’s to the inventor of “Vocal Play”, whose energy, vision and dedication is inspiring countless young musicians. Happy Birthday, Roger Thomas: Keep up the good work!                       [...]

by Dave Bernstein (Acatribe) and Florian Städtler (Vocal Blog) Uploaded by blogging buddies Dave Bernstein and Florian Städtler, this list is the result of successful social media crowdsourcing. Thanks for sharing your favourite a cappella events: Joep Hopstaken, Tine Fris, Jeanine Rondas, Michele Manzotti and Casey Gallas. This list is by no means complete and [...]

courtesy of Kristoffer Fynbo Thorning (Postyr Project), originally posted on www.postyrproject.com on January 19th I would like to tell you about the LiveMusicStage (LMS) project. We met the Finnish CEO of LMS: Antti, at last years Popkomm in Berlin by coincidence. Tine and I where browsing around and stumbled over the LMS stand, where we [...]

by Florian Städtler & Clare Wheeler We don’t think this picture needs any comment…   Love, Flo & Wheelie (Note: Didn’t even ask Clare about including her in this greeting, well, maybe in an acatelepathic way…)  

by Paul Smith, baritone with VOCES8   Mr Vocal Blog, in the lovely post-LACF haze of warm feelings, amazing a cappella and shared time with friends from around the world in our home town of London, talked about the a cappella community.  It’s a wonderful thing! The LACF brought home, literally, how very intimate our [...]

recorded by Vocal Blog on Tour aka Florian Städtler on Sat, Jan 14th at Kings Place, London Three times is a tradition, they say. So after Aarhus Vocal Festival 2011 and SoJam 2011, Vocal Blog video greetings from international vocal music events are now becoming a tradition. I haven’t counted the nationalities, groups etc. But [...]

    This post is a spontaneous response by Vocal Blog founder Florian Städtler to an outstanding article written by CASA founder Deke Sharon at www.casa.org yesterday. You can read the original post here and will find my reply. Comments would be very much appreciated.     Hi Deke, it’s been a while since a [...]

by Florian Städtler on BA 753 from London Heathrow to Basel/Freiburg London A Cappella Festival was a blast: A growing audience, a buzzing venue, an international line-up and an impressive number of vocal music movers and shakers from places as far as Taipeh, Toronto and Torino. The sheer joy of three days packed with concerts [...]

by Florian Städtler, from London A Cappella Festival 2012 (#LACF2012) It’s Saturday morning and it’s the third day of the third edition of the London A Cappella Festival 2012. We’ve seen wonderful concerts featuring The Vasari Singers (UK), The Boxettes (UK), Cadence (CAN) and FORK (FIN). The Schools on Stage project powered by Voice Festival [...]

by Tine Fris, Postyr Project   2012. A whole new year. It’s like a blank piece of paper, just waiting to be filled out with new adventures, experiments, and thoughts. I guess, it comes as no surprise, that Postyr Project couldn’t keep all that space empty for long. We had our first meeting and rehearsal [...]

by Florian Städtler, Vocal Blog   Who needs reasons to go to an international a cappella festival in London anyway…? Nevertheless, as this will be my third London A Cappella Festival (LACF), I feel that I might add something to the pre-festival excitement. And maybe make the undecided change their calendars if necessary, persuade the [...]

by Vocal Blog founder and EVA Chairman of the Board, Florian Städtler       I only realized after the eventual legal registration on December 20th 2011, how long the EVA idea had been cooking. Since the idea of a European vocal music network emerged, a self-appointed “core team” of seven people worked on this [...]

by Emily May t’Hoen, originally posted at http://thesinglesingers.blogspot.com on December 22nd, 2011 Whenever I visit a festival alone I have mixed feelings. I enjoy the concerts and workshops very much but….. I want to be on stage myself! I want to sing! Not just listen! That’s why I’m so glad that Annemarie Homan (Dutch friend [...]

by Robert-Jon Eckhart, originally posted at http://acappella.robert-jon.nl on December 6, 2011 Oh yeeeaaaaahhhhhhh!!! As I’m writing this, some of the best groups from all seasons are singing their hearts out during the final episode of the season, the live holiday special. (NBC gracefully waited until the Dutch sinterklaas-evening was over to air this. Very nice, [...]

by Helen Kuzina, Moscow (spring 2011)   When I found out that the Swingle Singers, hosts of London A Cappella Festival were performing in Cité de la Musique I jumped on the plane and came to fabulous Paris! This time they performed the Sinfonia by Luciano Berio. Before the concert I met Jo (Eteson), Clare  [...]

originally posted by Robert-Jon Eckhart on http://a-cappella.robert-jon.nl on November 28th – thanks again RJ, for sharing your Sing-Off experience!   Wow. Wow wow wow! We’re coming to a point in the competition where i’m starting to feel uncomfortable criticizing these groups at all. In 10 weeks, we’ve gone from a mish mash of 16 diverse [...]

by Robert-Jon Eckhart, originally posted at RJ’s blog on November 22nd, 2011 – sorry for the SoJam-related delay ;-)   Episode nine! We’re getting close to the end of this series and I love how the advantages of a longer season are starting to show. First off, some people are really finding themselves. (I’m talking [...]

by Robert-Jon Eckhart, originally posted at RJ’s blog on November 7th, 2011 – sorry for the SoJam-related delay ;-)   Yes, I have failed! This is the first blog I didn’t manage to churn out before the airing of the next episode, and I feel bad about it. But man, have I been sick last [...]

by Robert-Jon Eckhart, originally posted at RJ’s blog on November 7th, 2011 – sorry for the SoJam-related delay ;-)   This is the first time I’m writing about one of the enormous opening-tunes. There’s a reason for that. I don’t know if anything has changed in the mixing and choreographing of these numbers but they [...]