moosebutter is a wacky music ensemble from Provo, Utah. moosebutter croons about truth justice and the vegetable way. moosebutter loves peanut butter and igloos. moosebutter is just like a cutting-edge, hard-core hip-hop group, except moosebutter is from Utah, all white, not interested in controversy, and also doesn't perform hip-hop. Weston, however, does perform the "hip pop" when he does the splits. moosebutter likes you.
Members: Tim Y. Jones, Glen Sawyer, Weston Wride, Chris Harris
2003 Results |
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1st
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moosebutter |
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2nd
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Copper Wimmin |
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3rd
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Irrationals |
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Audience Favorite
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moosebutter |
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Best Original Arrangement
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"Star Wars" - moosebutter |
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Best Original Song
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"Show Me The ~Way" - Eric Farmer The Irrrationals |
2003 Participating groups
Bohica:
In the beginning of human existence, there was no music. Stories were created,
told, and forgotten. BOHICA looked down from their lofty perch in the heavens
and were greatly troubled. Ignoring the protestations of the other gods, BOHICA
reached to the earth and created music. The other gods were angry, and punished
BOHICA, stripping the four-in-one of their divinity and forcing them to walk
the earth as mortals
Members: Chris Ferejohn, Elena Krasnovsky, Ian Bell, Sara LaBatt
Copper Wimmin
Evolution is four talented and ambitious young men who found each
other through their passion for song and determination to carry out their
vision of global unity through music. Guy, Will, Tone and John are vocalists
who have formed a multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-cultural group united
by their similarities and strengthened by their diversity. Founded three years
ago, Evolution has always incorporated songwriting , arranging and producing
to their established repertoire of intricate harmonies and soulful interpretation.
Individually, they represent a microcosm of today¹s world; collectively, they
represent the future and all its possibilities; vocally, they capture the
human experience.
Members: John 'JB' Boyd, Anthony Tone' Cherry, Will Nada,
Guy Baruch
Irrationals Intimate,
witty and intelligent songsters, the award-winning Irrationals, are an a cappella
ensemble acclaimed for their rich, complex vocal style. The delicious blending
of their voices has been described as "café mocha for the ears." Singing together
for almost twelve years, this five-member, Berkeley-based group is praised
for its harmonic excellence and diverse repertoire. The Irrationals often
perform songs about the unpredictable. They are dazzled by the irrationality
of love, awed by the intuitive nature of life and intrigued by things that
don¹t make sense. For further information on the group, please call (510)
832-4005 or contact them via e-mail at Irrationals@att.net
Members: Renée Hayes, Tim Lukaszewski, Gwen McElwee, Sam Rogers, Eric Farmer and Linda Sanderson
moosebutter is a wacky music ensemble from Provo, Utah. moosebutter croons about truth justice and the vegetable way. moosebutter loves peanut butter and igloos. moosebutter is just like a cutting-edge, hard-core hip-hop group, except moosebutter is from Utah, all white, not interested in controversy, and also doesn't perform hip-hop. Weston, however, does perform the "hip pop" when he does the splits. moosebutter likes you.
Members: Tim Y. Jones, Glen Sawyer, Weston Wride, Chris Harris
One of Each: Four microphones.
Three men (Two Balding). One woman (Not balding). One of Each, formed in July
2002, has been performing in coffee shops and bus shelters, spitting on and
occasionally entertaining audiences around the Bay Area. Originally born Oswald
Giraffe, One of Each cocooned, pupated, and emerged a terrifying creature
of tremendous power and girth...emerged a force for truth and justice...emerged
blinking in the harsh stage lights. Dubbed ³pretty good² by a nameless, drunk
local critic, One Of Each seems poised to take on the a cappella world.
Members: Scott Adler, David Bender ,Lisa Gallien, David Taylor
Solstice
Tune-ami - This group is a newly formed vocal band all the way from Reno, Nevada. They have 5 talented singers from various musical backgrounds. Though their tastes differ, they've immersed themselves in 50's & 60's Doo-Wop with a splash of contemporary style. After drowning in an ocean of unacceptable names. they caught the wave that is......Tune-ami. A tidal wave of vocal harmony!
Members: Dave Margolis, Mikki Madison, Joseph Gonda, Jamie
Arrington, and B.J. Hill
Peter Albin As a principal member of the rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Peter achieved rock icon status. Not only the group's bassist, he also played guitar and sang lead vocals on the band's first record (with Janis Joplin), and wrote several of their songs. Subsequent to that auspicious success he played with Country Joe and the Fish, and well as Bay Area supergroup the Dinosaurs. In recent years, while Big Brother continue to tour and perform, Peter began working behind the scenes in the music business. Currently he is Advertising Coordinator for City Hall Records and active in the San Francisco Chapter of NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences).
Shaira Cion - Executive Director and singer with the vocal ensemble Kitka are too many to list here. She was the winner of the 1982 National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Grant, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Weslayan with a degree in Ethnomusicology, and earned an Advanced Certificate from the Moscow Conservatory in 1996. Meanwhile, she was Director of Operations for the Women's Philharmonic Orchestra. With Kitka, she performed at the National Festival of Bulgarian Folklore, where they were the first non-native act. Kitka also contributed music to the films "Braveheart," "Jacob's Ladder" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," as well as releasing three CD's, the latest of which is entitled The Vine.
Juliette Green is a Bay Area jazz vocalist and music educator. She was one of the founding members of the award-winning a cappella jazz group +4db, and has also performed with Bay Area groups Vocal Flight, InFusion, Without Measure, and Saved Soul. (For anyone who doesn't already know, one of the many accomplishments of +4db was to win the Harmony Sweepstakes Bay Area Regionals twice, both in 1998 and 2000.) By day, she teaches music and drama at the Corte Madera School in Portola Valley. Currently, she is singing and writing lyrics with Dave Duran (also from +4db) under the name Vocalese Inc., and she is working on a solo CD that will be released this spring.
Jan Pederson Schiff, conductor, receiver of BA degree in Music Education from Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, and MM degree in Choral Conducting, with an emphasis in vocal pedagogy from the University of Colorado. Ms Pedersen Schiff has been professionally involved with a broad range of choral groups, including K-12, community, church and professional choruses. She was a member of college music faculties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Southern California before moving to Marin County. She has also taught voice classes at Napa Valley College and College of Marin. As a Founder/Director of the Hollywood Chorale she received the Susan B. Anthony Award for Cultural Achievement. She has also led numerous choral and vocal workshops, served as choral clinician, and adjudicator for many venues such as the High School Choral Festival sponsored by Solano Community College. In addition to serving as the Artistic Director of the four choruses of Choral Singers of Marin, she teaches voice from her private vocal studio in Mill Valley.
Dave Worm began
his vocal career in 1985 with the Bay Area groups Jazz Mouth and Vocal Front.
In 1988 he became a founding member of Bobby Mcferrin's Voicestra ensemble and
has remained a regular performer with Mcferrin, touring with the early quartet,
Hard Choral and his most recent project Circlesongs. David is also one of three
original members of the a cappella group SoVoSo. David has worked extensively
with the dance community, having scored or co-written original works for ODC,
Robert Moses¹ Kin and Suzanne Gallo. David is an in-house musical producer for
Sales America, and has appeared in music videos for Kawasaki and Levi Straus.
He also has recorded 2 CD's with his rock band Glass House.
