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START HERE β€” What This Place Is and How It Works
Welcome to A Cappella. I'm Denis. I've spent 40+ years singing, directing, competing, coaching, and producing a cappella events across the world. I built this place because it didn't exist β€” and it should. This is a gathering place for anyone who sings with their voice, or wants to. Barbershop, jazz, gospel, contemporary, doo-wop, classical, world music, vocal percussion β€” every style lives here. There is no hierarchy. What this place IS: A community where singers become groups. Where you can share what you're working on without fear of judgment, find people to sing with, learn from each other, and feel the thing that happens when voices lock in together. What this place is NOT: A marketplace. A competition. A place to pitch your coaching business, sell your course, or promote your gig. There are other places for that. THE 5 RULES 1. Sanctuary, not marketplace. No pitching, no advertising, no self-promotion. If you have something to sell, this isn't the room. 2. ALL styles welcome. Barbershop, jazz, gospel, doo-wop, contemporary, classical, spiritual, world. Every tradition has something to teach the rest. Treat them all with respect. 3. No musical snobbery. This is the big one. The moment someone implies their style is superior to another, they've missed the point of singing entirely. Don't be that person. 4. Expression over performance. Singing is the same impulse as crying, speaking, or sighing β€” it's expression. You don't need to be "good enough" to participate here. You need to be willing to open your mouth. 5. Community matchmaking, not classifieds. The "Find Your Group" board is for connecting with other humans, not posting ads. Tell us who you are, where you are, what you're looking for. We'll help you find your people. WHERE THINGS LIVE 🎀 Welcome & Introductions β€” Your first stop. Tell us who you are, what you sing, where you're from. πŸ’¬ General Discussion β€” The main hangout. Anything a cappella. Questions, opinions, debates, stories. 🎢 Share Your Singing β€” Post recordings, videos, performances. This is the soul of the community. Be brave.
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My first "real" chorus
I had been a barbershopper for about 45 minutes with a chorus on the South Shore of Montreal (South Shore Saints) so when they said this "Big chorus from Texas" that "always wins international" so at 22 I went sure! Drove up to Toronto and with my 75$ ticket in hand (it was 30 years ago) sat at the Roy Thompson Hall and got ready for it. This was their first song. I was not ready.... when Jim Clancy stood in front of the 155 men on 8 rows spreading a mile wide on center stage it made the organ look small. The director raised his hands and, they ALL grew an inch making the risers creek under the weight... I swear - for the first 20 seconds, I thought it was a recording... Vocal Majority Dir: Jim Clancy
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Lucky 7!
Welcome @Darren Rust ! And Check out his @darrenrust_mixes YouTube Channel! Happy to have you here brother!
A win is a win. Period.
"My chorus just performed for 500 people" is a win. "I sang harmony for the first time today" is also a win. Same category. Same celebration. No hierarchy. This is where you share the things that went right. The breakthrough in rehearsal. The standing ovation. The moment you nailed a passage you've been struggling with for weeks. The time your quartet finally locked a chord so perfectly that everyone stopped and stared at each other. Mine? 75th Anniversary BHS International Convention. Toronto. That moment β€” hearing the crowd, feeling what 100+ voices just did together β€” I will never forget it as long as I live. But honestly? The wins I remember most are the small ones. The first time a chord rang so perfectly in rehearsal that the room went silent. That's the real stuff. "How many gold medals do we win even before the warm-up is over on an average chapter meeting night? THE gold medal is awarded for a seven-minute performance. How many gold medals do we win the other 31,535,580 seconds of the year? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Millions?" Dr. Jim Henry What's yours?
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