Overboard (a cappella)

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Overboard
Overboard, Idol Camp, July 2007
Background information
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Genre(s)	a cappella
Instrument(s)	Voices
Years active	2006 – present
Website	OverboardVocals.com
Members
Nick Girard Joe Barbato Josh Koelker Scott Cobban Jeff Alderson Dave Plante

Overboard is a male a cappella group based in Boston, MA. Their repertoire consists of a cappella covers of popular contemporary pop/rock artists, such as Fall Out Boy, Justin Timberlake and Rascal Flatts, and of a cappella standards, such as Blue Moon, In The Still of the Night and Stand By Me.

Founded by current director Nicholas Girard in the spring of 2006, Overboard was first conceived as a street performance group intent on entertaining audiences around coastal New England during the summer months. The group's first album, Shipwrecked, was released during that first summer and was distributed during the group's frequent busking stops in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Freeport, Maine and Burlington, Vermont, as well as around their hometown of Boston. On the heels of their successful first summer, the group decided to continue performing together on a more permanent basis.

In February 2007, Overboard began recording its second album, Stranded, which was released that May. To promote the album, the group performed at a variety of venues throughout New England. In June 2007, Overboard performed at Eggstock, an annual environmental awareness festival held at Flanig Farm in Simsbury, Connecticut where they sang the Beatles classic Here Comes the Sun to commemorate the unveiling of the state's first commercial Solar Photovoltaic System. In July, the group sang for audiences at the Middlesex School Summer Arts Camp in Concord, Massachusetts and at Idol Camp, organized by the producers of American Idol and held on one of the campuses of the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts.

On December 14th, 2007, the group was selected as a top five finalist in the Boyz II Men / CBS Early Show Acappella Quest competition. In April, Overboard placed third at the 2008 Boston regional Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival held at Tufts University.