2019 Port Washington Acapocalypse

St. Croix Sound

St. Croix Sound is a competitive a cappella group from Prescott High School. Rachael sat down with the group at the 2019 Port Washington Acapocalypse Festival.

Learn more about St. Croix Sound here: https://www.facebook.com/PrescottHighSchoolChoir.

The Jaguar Singers is a jazz and a cappella group comprised of middle school students in grades 5 – 8 from Thomas Jefferson Middle School . Rachael sat down with the group at the 2019 Port Washington Acapocalypse Festival.

Learn more about the Jaguar Singers here: https://sites.google.com/pwssd.k12.wi.us/mrsraaflaub/music-activities/jaguar-singers.

Highlands Voices

Highlands Voices is a competitive, contemperory a cappella group from Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, NJ. Rachael sat down with the group at the 2019 Port Washington Acapocalypse festival.

Learn more about Highlands Voices here: https://www.facebook.com/HighlandsVoices.

Sol Trane

Luxemburg Casco High School’s Sol Trane is a mixed high school a cappella group that Rachael sat down with in March of 2019 at Port Washington Acapocalypse.

Learn more about Sol Trane here: https://www.facebook.com/lcsoltrane/

Ladies Knight

Rachael flew out to Wisconsin last March to cover the 2019 Port Washington Acapocalypse festival. She was thrilled to sit down with Ladies Knight, an all-female high school group from Oak Creek High School.

To learn more about the group, reach out to their director, Sam Wulterkens, whose contact information can be found at https://www.ocfsd.org/oak-creek-high-school/staff-directory?utf8=%E2%9C%93&const_search_group_ids=&const_search_role_ids=&const_search_keyword=&const_search_first_name=sam&const_search_last_name=wulterkens.

Port Washington Limited Edition

Back in March, Rachael flew out to Wisconsin to cover the 2019 Port Washington Acapocalypse festival. She had the opportunity to sit down with the incredible high school group putting on the festival, Limited Edition!

Learn more about the group here: http://www.limitededitionacappella.com.

5am A Cappella

Rachael had the chance to sit down with 5am A Cappella, a ten member group from the greater Milwaukee area, while in Port Washington, WI at the end of March 2019, covering Acapocalypse. Check out the group here: https://www.facebook.com/5amACappella/

WIBI A Cappella

Episode 176 (0:21:18)

WIBI A Cappella has been busy with not one, not two, but THREE EPs they are releasing over the course of the next few months. We had a chance to sit down with the group to hear about all the music they are putting out and what life has been like as the pandemic has loosened its grip a bit.

Learn more about WIBI on Twitter (https://twitter.com/wibiacappella), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wibiacappella), or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/WIBIACappella).

2022 (2) | New Music (17) | Collegiate Groups (80) |

Illuminations

Episode 175 (0:19:36)

With a recent successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and and a recently released EP, we had so much to catch up on with the University of Exeter's Illuminations! You can find out more about the group on their website (https://www.exeterilluminations.com) or watch their latest videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXJSX222tzl5M-ljGLlxRew.

2022 (2) | New Music (17) | Collegiate Groups (80) |

Skyline Blues

Episode 174 (0:17:19)

Skyline Blues

Members of Ann Arbor Skyline Blues talk about their new album, Light at the End, as well as what they are looking forward to now that they are back together.

Listen to the album on Spotify and be sure to check out the group's YouTube page.

New Music (17) | High School Groups (30) | 2021 (36) |

Pitch Fight

Episode 173 (0:19:57)

Pitch Fight

Pitch Fight is a 15 piece all-female identifying a cappella group from the University of Bristol. The group is competitive in competitions like VoiceFest and the ICCAs, in addition to being featured in Sky One's Sing: Ultimate A Cappella, and participating in Edinburgh Fringe. Rachael sits down with Helen, Emily, and Aashna to talk about the group's latest single, Thumbs, opb Sabrina Carpenter.

United Kingdom (7) | New Music (17) | 2021 (36) | Collegiate Groups (80) |

Bill Hare

Episode 172 (0:37:32)

Bill Hare

Who knew an electric bassist would alter the landscape of a cappella recording forever? Bill Hare sits down on The Pulse for a special hour-long episode to talk about how it all came to be - the fortunate, unfortunate, and sometime bizarre series of events that have had an enormous impact on the art form.

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