Spring Break
Singers make merry at A Cappella Fest
by Shelly Shore
Staff Writer
Arts | 4/28/09
Posted online at 10:30 PM EST on 4/27/09
/ Last updated at 2:14 AM EST on 4/27/09
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Hosted by Starving Artists, the show started off with a performance by Voices of Soul. Prior to each group's act, the audience learned a fun fact about it. Apparently, all members of Voices of Soul are bilingual. They kicked off their set with "If I Ain't Got You," featuring solos by Ji Yun Lee '11 and Darlene Zephyrine '12. The girls rocked it out, and the audience broke into applause when they paused for breath before the song had even ended. Making a shift, the group turned up the sex appeal with "Alright," which included a solo by Josh Kahane '12.
Rocking T-shirts and yarmulkes, Jewish Fella A Cappella took over. Their fun fact? After A Cappella Fest, they headed out to walk to a gig in Newton. JFAC sang a fun version of the Passover classic "Dayenu" complete with adorably cheesy choreography and finished their set with "Juicy Tongue on Rye," an ode to a deli in Brookline and a spoof of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
Company B (which is also, apparently, a bobsled team) took the stage after JFAC. They started their set with "Woodstock," which featured a solo by Liza Behrendt '11. The sopranos rocked some serious high notes before David Neiditch '09 out-falsettoed them with his solo in "Witchy Woman."
There was a brief interlude between groups as first-year Eric Freeman (Starving Artists' resident technical genius) rushed onstage to work with the sound system before Manginah took the stage. A fun fact about Manginah: if you don't know what they're saying, don't worry-neither do approximately 42 percent of their members. Manginah dove right in with "Kama od Efshar." The song included Harrison Bannett's '11 amazing tenor belt. Manginah finished its set with a crowd favorite, "Happy Ending," during which Jennifer Levy '12, Becky Fisher '10 and Harrison Kessler '09 performed solos.
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Gideon
posted 4/29/09 @ 12:46 AM EST
Max, can you please send a high-quality version of the photo of JFA to jfa at brandeis? Thank you.
Gideon
Gideon
posted 4/29/09 @ 2:04 PM EST
Also, in a complaint similar to the one lodged last week by members of a music ensemble, you have to ensure simple things like names. Jewish Fella A Cappella, as counterintuitive as it may seem, is known as JFA, not JFAC. (Continued…)
Brian
posted 4/30/09 @ 2:27 AM EST
Gideon, that has been corrected in the print edition. This must have gone up before the correction was made.
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