Adelphi Hosts 3-Day Singstrong A Capella Festival Benefitting Cure Alzheimer's Fund
Garden City, NY (01/23/2025) — Professional a cappella groups from around the world will perform with collegiate and HS groups at SingStrong International A cappella Festival at Adelphi University's Performing Arts Center (PAC) from Friday, January 31 to Sunday, February 2. The 3-day, all-vocal event will consist of five concerts and two days of classes and coaching, all featuring nothing but the human voice.
Audiences will hear pop, jazz, rock, broadway, barbershop, overtone, beatbox and more -all performed a cappella. Groups will use only their voices to perform melodies, and harmonies and to vocally imitate a virtual orchestra of sounds -including vocal drums, vocal trumpet, vocal electric guitar, and vocal synthesizers -all without instruments.
Scheduled SingStrong New York 2023 headliners include:
- Julia Easterlin, Grammy-winner, a cappella live looper from New York, collaborator with Jacob Collier and Bobby McFerrin;
- Blue Jupiter, Broadway Records recording artists, performing wild re-imaginings of pop and "twisted broadway"
- Diana Preisler, star of the hit TV show "Pitch Slapped" on Lifetime TV in the US, South America, UK, Philippines and Israel;
- Six 13, World-renowned Jewish A cappella sextet with millions of views, known for their viral parody videos;
- Forest Fire, #1 ranked Beatbox Duo in the US
- Radius, #1 ranked a cappella group in the US in the 2023 National Harmony Sweepstakes
- Smoke Ring Barbershop Quartet, #1 ranked mixed voice Barbershop Quartet in the world!
- The Trills, LA-based pop a cappella group with 24M YouTube views including viral hits "Wellerman" and "Electric Love."
- Harmonic Introductions, Overtone ensemble in which each singer sings multiple notes simultaneously
- Black to Gold, pop a cappella group from New York, reigning champion of ACA-IDOL, CARA winners Best Holiday Album, Best Debut Album
Past SingStrong performers include Pentatonix, NOTA, Street Corner Symphony, Ten, MAXX Factor, Traces, Afro-Blue and The Vanderbilt Melodores from NBC's TV show, "The Sing-Off".
See the full schedule of events.
Event profits support charity, with a silent auction to benefit the fight against Alzheimer's with its partners Cure Alzheimer's Fund. Ticket and merchandise proceeds will support music programs with a special focus on singing and a cappella music with SingStrong Inc., a Public Charity.
Individual Tickets start at $35. Or save with an All Access Weekend Pass at $100, a Class Pass for $60 or a Combo Pass for $75: tickets and complete info at SingStrong.org.
Adelphi is a co-sponsor of SingStrong International A cappella Festival. Information is available at the Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at 516-877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. and the box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances. Ticket sales and additional information are available.
Adelphi PAC is one of Long Island's premier cultural arts venues for entertainment of all kinds. See more about other upcoming Adelphi PAC offerings at pac.adelphi.edu.
About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university in the United States with a personalized approach to higher learning
Adelphi University, New York, US, is a highly awarded, internationally ranked and powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives. It is recognized for small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training at the undergraduate and graduate level with particular strength in its 'Core Four' academic areas: the Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.
Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves more than 7,250 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York-just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities-and at dynamic learning hubs in Brooklyn, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.
More than 119,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities, and the world.
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The Trills, with over 44.5 million you tube views and 350 million TikTok views, are one of 9 headliners at SingStrong this year.