Tenth Annual A Cappella Night

We are pleased to present three exciting A cappella groups for our tenth annual festival of the human voices. For the last 30 years, North Shore A cappella has entertained and excited thousands of listeners throughout the Boston area, adding an experienced blend of harmony, rhythm and tempo to songs from the 40s right up through today. The voices belong to Tommy Duarte, Paul Lopes, Jimmy Martin, Vinny Straccia, and Guy Chiapponi.
This special art of delivering music without instrumental accompaniment is what North Shore A cappella is all about. The award-winning group offers a continuously fresh repertoire of hundreds of popular hits that cover the last five decades. Each number and performance is arranged in a way that showcases each member in a role of lead singer - a trait that very few a cappella groups in the country can claim.
Over the years, Boston Jazz Voices' repertoire has expanded to include jazz arrangements of the American songbook. Their performances have taken them to medieval churches in Paris, to white colonial churches in New England, to schools and libraries and assisted living facilities all over the region, and to local radio and television. They've sung the national anthem at Fenway Park in Boston, celebrated Christmas at Old Sturbridge Village and have rung in the New Year at First Night in Boston. You can find them at festivals of all kinds of a cappella music where they are often chosen to represent that Big Band vocal sound possible only by a group of their size and mix. What Boston Jazz Voices offers is a unique combination of those old sounds and contemporary vocal jazz idiom. Boston Jazz Voices is indebted to those whose dreams and passions provided the foundation for what they represent. It is their hope that they reach and touch all who are drawn into the magic of vocal jazz ensemble singing. That is their goal. This is their history.
This year we open the concert with Merrimack College's own "Mack-Apella" comprised of 18 students of all year levels, Merrimack's very own a cappella singing group, Mackapella, has hit the ground running this past year. The group arranges original music of all genres, reaching new heights with unique harmonies and beats. Mackapella is delighted to be opening tonight, and looks forward to gracing the stage at the Rogers Center for many times to come.