National A Cappella Championships 2008

KR A Cappella sent a team to compete in the Open category at this year’s A Cappella Championships, and we came in second!

We also won prizes for audience favourite (thanks to our vocally-trained fans with their loud cheering) and best costume (for outfits that best matched our song set). Thanks again to the supporters!

Our team, the acafellas, comprised Tina, Lishi, Jia Xin, Joel T, Vernon, Elvin (chief arranger), Glen and Allen and we presented two pop pieces – Maroon 5’s “Makes me wonder” and Snow Patrol’s “Chasing cars”.

Catch us at next year’s championships!

Aca Concert 2008

Yep it’s the end of the Culture month. KR Aca put a well-deserved fullstop on this mad month of performances with our in-house concert. This year’s concert was held in the KR Dance studio, a small and cosy space. The concert also featured the debut of our 2nd-semester additions, Meisi and Lin (Yes, that Lin).

Some highlights of this year’s concert:

Lin in the starring role as “Beng. Ah Beng”.

Original songs such as our National Day Songs Medley (below) and Techno Medley.

Classic favourites from Singapore’s own Budak Pantai like “Abuden” (below), “The moon dai biao wo de heart” and “Wo shi zhen de”.

And many more! Including “Internet Porn” and “Enormous Penis” by Da Vinci’s notebook, “O Holy Night” by N’Sync and “Ain’t no Sunshine”.

Many thanks to those who came down and squeezed into the dance studio to support us! For those who couldn’t make it down, there’s always next year!

Anyway, it’s time for all of us to buckle down and start preparing for exams. The next event that we’ll be involved in is the National A Cappella Championships this coming July – come and give us your support as we’ll probably be fielding a few teams!

Amplitude 2008

Hey! Sorry for the very very late updates but Culture Month here at Kent Ridge Hall just ended and we’re finally breathing a sigh of relief 🙂

Anyway, Amplitude (an annual event where choirs and a cappella groups from all the halls of residence come together to put up a show) 2008 went by on the 16th of March. As always, KR A Cappella put up a dazzling show with stylish dressing, tight choreography and, of course, plenty of good ‘ol harmony. We are an A Cappella group, after all.

This year we presented 2 songs at Amplitude: “Hitori”, a close harmony japanese tune done by the Gospellers; and Songs of the Sirens (SOS), an upbeat original composition we used for last year’s Aca Nationals, arranged by Elvin and Melissa, consisting of the songs “Let’s get loud”, “Sweet dreams” and “Sway”.

Hitori at Amplitude 08

Songs of the Sirens at Amplitude 08

See you there next year!

Thanks!

Thanks to all our very wonderful supporters and friends who were at the Singapore Art Cafe last night to give us your support! Despite all the technical problems, flu bugs going around and all, I’m sure we had a great experience and we hope you did too. We’re just sorry that we couldn’t present more songs and a more upbeat repertoire…

Anyway, most important thanks goes to our friend Jon and the staff at the Art Cafe for hosting us once again 🙂 See ya’ll there again next year?

Upcoming Gig: 26th Sept 2007 at the Singapore Art Cafe

Hey hey! KR aca will be performing at a wednesday night showcase at the Singapore Art Cafe. In case you don’t know, the SAC is the cafe ensconced in the corner of the Esplanade library 🙂 Do come down to give us your support!

Thanks to Jon from the SAC for setting us up!