PITCH SLAPPED premieres in January 

Thanks to Glee, Pitch Perfect, and The Sing-Off, we're in a golden age for a cappella in media, and Lifetime is about to give us even more aca-awesome performances with their new show, Pitch Slapped.

The docuseries will pit two rival New Jersey high school a cappella teams against each other, each under the mentorship of a superstar in the a cappella world. 

The mentors will be Deke Sharon, the producer of The Sing-Off and music director and arranger for the Pitch Perfect films, and Diana Preisler, a Broadway veteran and the manager and lead singer for the a cappella group Blue Jupiter. Sharon will work with the group "Stay Tuned" from Cherry Hill, while Preisler will mentor "The Voices" from Allendale.

We're particularly excited, because late in January, Deke will be working with singers and emceeing the Youth Chorus Festival at the Midwinter Convention in Reno, and leading a class on "How to make Barbershop music go viral." 
January 28-31, 2016

As the school year starts, you're probably looking around the choir room and wishing you had a few more tenors and basses. Maybe they need a BIG GOAL to light a fire.

How about a FREE TRIP to Reno?

We're bringing 500 singers together for a tremendous weekend of workshops, adjudicated performances and fun.
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"The father of contemporary a cappella" - Entertainment Weekly "A one man a cappella revolution" - Boston Globe "Deke Sharon makes a cappella cool again" - NPR
DEKE SHARON 
musical director
Pitch Perfect
The Sing-Off
Deke Sharon will direct the Festival Chorus and hold a special workshop for young singers.

Heralded as "the father of contemporary a cappella," he is responsible for the current sound of modern a cappella, having created the dense vocal-instrumental sound in college, subsequently spreading it around the world. Deke produces The Sing-Off worldwide and was arranger, on-site music director and vocal producer for Universal's Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.

Deke founded the Contemporary A Cappella Society while in college and is responsible for many seminal a cappella programs, including the CARAs (Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards), ICCAs (International Championship of College A Cappella), and BOCA (Best of College A Cappella Compilation). He is also contemporary a cappella's most prolific arranger, having arranged over 2,000 songs, with many of them in print worldwide with Hal Leonard/Contemporary A Cappella Publishing.
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Did we mention FREE? 

We'll take care of lodging and registrations, adsmissions to shows, wetc. you just get there ad get some food.