Rockapella

A Rockapella Holiday

Saturday, December 15, 2007

7:30 p.m.

Lund Auditorium

Tickets $32 | $22

There’s only one place in Chicagoland to catch this family-friendly, extraordinarily joyful holiday concert showcasing classic, contemporary and original material drawn from Rockapella’s multiple holiday recordings. The group’s early gigs on Manhattan street corners earned them a slot on the television special Spike & Co.: Do It A Cappella, hosted by Spike Lee, which led to five seasons on the award-winning PBS television program Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? More than a dozen albums later, the five-man powerhouse is a driving force in 21st-century vocal music, adding a surprising range of material and styles—including human beatbox and outrageous percussive effects. This year, let the “fa-la-las” be tinged with Rockapella’s infectious blend of soul, rock and jazz.

 “The world of a cappella music, which had seemed like a calm, predictable place inhabited by barbershop and madrigal singers, suddenly is full of all sorts of new possibilities.”
— New York Times