Professional Showcase

Saturday, February 11 @ 7:30 (Door open at 7:00)

RISD Auditorium
Rhode Island School of Design
17 Canal St.
Providence, RI

TURN IT UP!

Everyone's going to be working hard all weekend. Now sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

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duwende (Doo-WEN-day)

Duwende (Doo-WEN-day) is an award-winning a cappella band from New York City. They are best known for their fiercely original, bass-and-beatbox-driven funk/pop style of music and have headlined major a cappella festivals such as the East Coast Summit, SoJam, and AcappellaStock.

Two of Duwende’s most recent albums Radio Screaming and Collective won the 2005 and 2008 Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards for Best Pop/Rock Album and Best Pop/Rock Original Song from The Contemporary A cappella Society.

In 2011, Duwende released Remember: the Music of Michael Jackson, gaining them widespread acclaim and leading them to performances for the United Nations, Sundance Film Festival, Bill Clinton Global Initiative, and the Ellen Degeneres Show.

Check them out at duwende.com

transit

Combining soaring leads, smooth harmonies, and a thumping rhythm section, transit demonstrates the power, versatility, and emotion of the most natural instrument of all . . . the human voice. From Raleigh, North Carolina, transit brings the down south rock-and-roll sound to the stage with every genre from the Temptations and the Beatles to modern Rock and Pop. An up and coming vocal powerhouse they are busy touring all of the U.S. building a fan base and showing the world that a cappella can truly ROCK!

transit's debut EP as garnered much acclaim, winning 2006 Best Pop/Rock Cover Runner-Up, 2007 Best Pop/Rock Original Runner-Up, 2007 Best Pop/Rock Cover, and 2007 Best Album. They are currently hard at work on their second studio album which will be out in the Summer of 2012.

Keep an eye out for great things to come from transit and check them out when they're in your area.

Check them out at transitvocalband.com

mister tim

Mister Tim is a singer, performer, teacher, composer, conductor and artistic director in a variety of vocal and choral-related fields. He is the creator of, and artistic director for, more than a dozen award-winning a cappella groups, an accomplished classical and choral vocalist, a published composer and arranger, and a valued educational and music consulting resource.

Mister Tim's live looping is an exploration of the human voice. "Live-looping,” or electronically layering sounds, Mister Tim builds full songs with just his one voice, adding drums, instruments, melodies and harmonies, weaving sonic stories with thoughtfully-written original songs and creatively twisted covers.

Even if you've seen looping before, you've never seen looping like this!

Check him out at mistertimdotcom.com