Hello Chicago Singers!

- Interested in acapella music?
- Looking for a local group of acapella friends and music partners in crime?

Hot Commodity is on the lookout for some new talent!!!

Hot Commodity, a co-ed contemporary acapella group, is currently auditioning all
voice parts. Please contact us at hotcommodityacappella@... for more
information and to schedule an audition. We rehearse Sunday evenings, and are
currently booking performances for fall and holiday concerts.

We hope to hear from all the star talent Chicagoland has to offer! Please check
us out on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Commodity/52365505207?ref=ts

UMBRIAN SERENADES is a life-transforming choral program that brings together
passionate singers from all over the U.S. who seek opportunities to perform
exquisite A CAPPELLA repertoire within a small vocal chamber ensemble. These
choral enthusiasts come together to enhance their vocal, musicianship, and
ensemble skills, as well as savor all that small medieval hilltop towns in the
heart of Italy can offer culturally, be it wine, olive oil, cooking, and the
like. This select chamber ensemble performs sacred a cappella vocal works,
spanning from Renaissance to Gospel, Spiritual and contemporary repertoire in
unique spaces throughout the lush and breathtaking hills of Umbria.

In addition to performing under amazing frescos and art work from the Italian
Renaissance, and in sacred spaces and cathedrals such as the Basilica of St.
Francis in ASSISI and the Duomo of SPOLETO, 2010 participants will get to
perform under Musical America Conductor of the Year (2004), JOSEPH FLUMMERFELT,
as well as participate in a conducting master class during the 12-day stay in
Umbria, Italy.

For application information and procedures please visit
http://www.umbrianserenades.com or contact Paulo Faustini, Founder & Co-Artistic
Director, Umbrian Serenades, LLC, PO Box 56314, Philadelphia, PA 19130; (888)
664-2355; fax: (267) 430-7490; mail@....

Acappellago announces its eighth season:

Escape to...The Light of the Star
Featuring Benjamin Britten's "Christ's Nativity"

Saturday, 12/5/09, 7:30 pm.
Mayslake Peabody Estate
1717 W. 31st Street
Oak Brook, IL

Sunday, 12/6/09, 3:00 pm.
Naperville Congregational Church
1 Bunting Lane (SW corner of 75th & Washington Streets)
Naperville, IL

Escape to...The Light of the Moon

Saturday, 3/20/10, 7:30 pm.
Mayslake Peabody Estate
1717 W. 31st Street
Oak Brook, IL

Sunday, 3/21/10, 3:00 pm.
Naperville Congregational Church
1 Bunting Lane (SW corner of 75th & Washington Streets)
Naperville, IL

Tickets are $15, $12 for seniors & students. Discounted subscriptions are also
available. Visit: www.acappellago.org for more information & to order tickets.

Patricia Smith
acappellago@...

I had recently moved back to the Chicago area after living in California for 10
years.  I sang with a 6 voice group in CA called Ro Sham Bo - check it out at
www.roshambosings.com.   If you check out the myspace page, I am in one of the
older pictures with the city scape background, lower right corner.

I am looking for something similar here - 1 on a part, challenging harmonies,
great arrangements and solid musicians.

I live in Oak Park and have transportation.  Let me know if you have a group or
know of a group who might need someone like me!

Thanks, Heidi
708-209-9479

Hello Acappella Friends & Fans-

I hope this post finds you all well and ready for this years installment of
AcappellaFest.  AcappellaFest Detroit is happening Oct. 17 and AcappellaFest
Chicago is happening Oct. 24.  AcappellaFest Chicago has been expanded to
include workshops; a matinee show featuring Blue Jupiter, CVX, and Voices In
Your Head; and an evening concert featuring The Bobs.  (3)Three ticket opions
are available for this show.  The workshops and matinee has tickets available
for $15;  the evening concert featuring The Bobs has tickets available for $20;
and a FEST PASS is available for the entire days events at the discounted price
of $30.

We hope you will join us in making a day of it and enjoying the best regional
and national a cappella groups all hosted by Chicago's very own Vocal Chaos. 
Tickets are availalbe NOW through the Schaumburg Prairie Center ticket office or
through the link posted on our site at AcappellaFest(dot)com.

See you there:
Greg Vaden
elmoTHUMM Entertainment
AcappellaFest Chicago/Detroit

Baritone/Bass Needed!!

Baritone/Bass needed to complete an a cappella quartet with contract to perform
on Celebrity Cruise Tour.

We are looking for a baritone/bass in the Chicagoland area who is willing to
travel for months at a time, singing a cappella on a cruise ship.

You will be expected to learn a good deal of music relatively quickly. Styles
are mostly doo wop, motown, barbershop and other standards. We currently have a
contract to perform on Celebrity Cruises for 6 months starting in December '09.
The tour starts in the Caribbean and then heads to Europe. You will be learning
about 40 songs prior to leaving on tour.

Cruise Information: 6 months. Pay is about $2,250 a month, Room and board is
free. Shared cabins (2 per cabin). Travel Insurance included.

If you want further information, e-mail Chris Faye at faye.chris@...

Tenor & Bass needed for established amateur, unpaid (but serious) classical a
cappella group. Mixed group performs sacred and secular music, with a particular
focus on 20th & 21st century works. The men of the group also sing separately:
classical, jazz, English folk. Need straight tone, and ability to blend and
sightread. Rehearsals Monday nights, Evanston. Contact 847-648-6884 or
asanich@..., or view our website at www.skalinder.net/coriolis

Hello All:



It's late so I'll keep this brief.  Tickets are now on sale for two very
important elmoTHUMM events.



AcappellaFest Detroit (Oct. 17), The Village Theater at Cherry Hill

http://sa1.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=VTCH&event=ETHAF_\
09



elmoTHUMM in Concert (Feb. 13), Meyer Theater in Monroe, MI

http://monroe.mi.emerciv.com/em/calendar/view/69643d6576656e745f3138393733.html



Group rates are available for AcappellaFest (15 or more) and a strong showing
this year by YOU - our crazy a cappella fans - will ensure that the event
becomes an annual event here as it has in Chicago.  Chicago tickets are also
available NOW!



Thanks!  Hope to see you there.

Greg Vaden

elmoTHUMM Entertainment

www.elmoTHUMM.com

www.AcappellaFest.com

The Sing-Off, the new NBC talent show exclusively for a cappella groups will be
holding auditions in Chicago in September. Groups of between 4 - 10 members of
any style are welcome.

From the show's press release:-

"Groups will rehearse and sing the world's most popular songs, arranged and
performed like you've never heard them…no lip-synching, no back-up bands, no
safety net. They will compete weekly in front of the show's panel of
professional experts. One group will be eliminated each episode and America will
decide in our live finale who will be the nation's best a cappella group and
will walk away with the ultimate prize."

Monday September 14
Superior Street
2744 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60612

For more info visit:-
http://www.acappellanews.com

• Please prepare a verse and chorus of a popular song of your choice that displays your range
• Be prepared to sight read and do vocal exercises
• Performance resume preferred, no head shots necessary

Hello Acappella Fans -

Here's an update on two very important a cappella events happening soon here in
the Midwest:

AcappellaFest Detroit:  The date is set for Sat., Oct. 17, 2009 at The Village
Theater in Canton, MI.  The event will be hosted by elmoTHUMM and promises to
feature local and regional a cappella groups that ROCK!

AcappellaFest Chicago:  The date is set for Sat., Oct. 24, 2009 at the Prairie
Center in Schaumburg, IL.  The event will be hosted by Vocal Chaos and feature
workshops, a matinee concert featuring Vocal Chaos, Voices in Your Head, and
Blue Jupiter.  The event will also feature an evening concert with The Bobs.  It
should be an amazing event with tickets going on sale soon.  You will be able to
purchase matinee OR evening concert tickets but you will also have the option of
buying an all inclusive ticket at a discounted price that will admit you into
all the days events.

More details to come.  PLEASE mark your calendars and we'll hope to see you
there.

Greg Vaden
elmoTHUMM
AcappellaFest Co-Producer

Faces for Radio, a Chicago-based all-female vocal ensemble, will be holding auditions for new members on Thursday, July 23. While we're always happy to meet outstanding singers of any voice type, we're particularly interested in finding:

-- high sopranos
-- super-low altos

Sight-reading and past a cappella experience are a plus.

Interested singers should email kay@.... Location and time slots will be announced as the audition date approaches.

About Us: Faces for Radio is an all-female a cappella vocal ensemble specializing in pop, rock and contemporary standards. We've been around since 2005, and have performed at a variety of public and private events around the city, including the Around the Coyote Festival, the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival, Christkindlmarket at Daley Plaza, and at the season opener for Chicago's premiere female roller derby league, The Windy City Rollers.

We rehearse weekly in the Andersonville/Edgewater area on Thursday nights. We currently have 9 members, and are looking to add 2 to 3 more members.

Those interested in auditioning can check us out at our annual concert:

Faces for Radio: The Man Show
July 11, 2009
TIME: 7:30pm
Holy Covenant United Methodist Church
925 W Diversey
Chicago, IL

Or check us out at:
http://www.myspace.com/facesforradio1

Hello All - Greg from the Detroit based elmoTHUMM here.  We have a couple of
potentional dates in IL that we'd love to participate in but we need a little
from you to make that happen.  If you belong to or know someone involved with
your area schools, performing art centers, or universities and colleges and
would like to book our group for a date around Feb. 5 or March 12, PLEASE give
us a call or shot me an email.  We understand that money is tight all over the
country and that routing gigs is really the only way to affordibly make them
happen.

Again, PLEASE help us and we'll help you and let's see if we can't make some
music together.

Thank:
Greg Vaden
elmoTHUMM Entertainment
(248)676-0886

Hello Chicago (and everyone else listening in):

Greg from elmoTHUMM here.  So, it's been a busy few weeks for us here
in Michigan.  elmoTHUMM has been added as a headliner for SingStrong
(SingStrong.org).  We look forward to working with Blue Jupiter,
Eclipse, and the rest of the SingStrong gang.  We have also added
another theater show in Three Rivers, MI.  The Riviera Theater
(trriviera.com) is a couple hrs. drive from Chicago but hey, we're
willing to meet you half way (between Detroit & Chicago) so that's
saying something.

That's it for now.  Good luck EVERYONE at this years Sweeps.  We've
got a corperate gig that night so I'm sorry to say I'll be missing it
this year.  PLEASE - if you have friends or family in or near Reston,
VA or Three Rivers, MI tell them to come check out our show and say
HELLO.

Details for this years AcappellaFest should be forthcoming soon.
Take Care:
Greg Vaden
elmoTHUMM
www.YouTube.com/user/elmoTHUMM