The Hanover-based Dartmouth Aires will continue their quest for a cappella kudos on Monday, Oct. 10, at 8 p.m. on NBC’s “The Sing-Off.”
The Dartmouth College ensemble, one of 16 groups from around the country chosen to compete in the televised singing competition, late last month garnered raves from judges Shawn Stockman, Ben Folds and Sara Bareilles for their rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground.”
The group is scheduled to perform an arrangement both of a current radio hit as well as a song from the 1960s next week.
Weekly eliminations will continue until one vocal group is named America’s favorite and awarded a Sony Music Recording contract and $200,000.
“Most of our arrangements consist of one soloist, a dozen or so people singing background, and a vocal percussionist,” the group said on its Facebook page. “The background of our arrangements consist of a series of complex instrument-like syllables that, when sung together, resemble the background of the original song.”
The Aires, who also are scheduled to perform in a Wolfeboro Friends of Music show at Brewster Academy’s Anderson Hall, 205 S. Main St., Wolfeboro, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, auditioned for the third season of “The Sing-Off” last spring.
“Our members hail from New England and all over, the furthest ends being Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and Toronto,” said Ethan Weinberg, a member of the Aires as well as its business manager. “We have a really diverse set of singers from all parts of campus who do so many different things (varsity rowers and lacrosse players, admissions office workers, dancers, writers for campus publications, outdoorsmen, etc.) who can still come together to make beautiful music.”
Group members also include Nic Chuaqui, Xavier Curry, Nate Davis, Daniel Freeman, Daniel Leopold, Justin Lerman, Henry Luehrman, Brendan Lynch-Salamon, Jack Merril, Clark Moore, Michael Odokara-Okigbo, Preston Suan, Robert Hoffman, Will Hart and Alex Taylor.
“There’s a little more to this group than with your average enthusiastic group of college male a cappella singers,” Fold said in his post-show blog at nbc.com of the Aires’ debut performance on Sept. 19. “Firstly, they have at least one fantastic front man in Michael. He’s got a timeless voice and gives it a hundred percent (or more if that’s possible). There’s also chemistry in the group as a whole. ... The bridge arrangement was promising, so more of that please? I’m very interested in seeing how they develop.”
The Aires were named Contemporary A Cappella Recording Artists for Best All-Male Collegiate Album in 2003 and 2005, and the group was selected for compilation CDs in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011.
Tickets to the Wolfeboro Aires show are $20. Call 569-2151, or visit wfriendsofmusic.org for more information.
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