Claremont Shades

The Claremont Shades
Origin Claremont, California
Genres a cappella
Years active 1995-present
Website http://www.claremontshades.com

The Claremont Shades are the first co-ed collegiate a cappella group at the Claremont Colleges.[1] Founded in 1995, this award-winning group has recorded five professional albums and been featured on three Best of College A cappella (BOCA) albums (1998, 2002, and 2005).[2] [3] Each year, the group learns a new repertoire of rock, pop, R&B, alternative, and jazz covers, and performs at college and professional venues throughout California and the US. Every fall, the group hosts the Southern California A Cappella Music Festival, "SCAM Fest," featuring 12 of the top Southern California a cappella groups.[4] Every spring, the group tours the US, performing at venues from Boston to San Francisco.

SCAM Fest

The Shades hosted the first "Southern California A Cappella Music Festival" in November 1996 with the goal of hosting every collegiate and professional a cappella group in Southern California. [5]Now in its 19th year, the festival draws an audience of over 2,000 and usually includes 12 a cappella groups. [6]

Discography

The Claremont Shades currently have 5 albums.

All Things Go (2010)

  1. 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)
  2. Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield)
  3. At Last
  4. Apologize
  5. Bless the Broken Road (Rascal Flatts)
  6. There Is No Arizona (Jamie O'Neal)
  7. Chicago (Sufjan Stevens)
  8. The Luckiest
  9. Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)
  10. Say My Name (Destiny's Child)
  11. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)

Random Play (2006)

  1. Clocks (Coldplay)
  2. Waterfalls
  3. Don't Speak
  4. Strong Enough
  5. Virtual Insanity (Jamiroquai)
  6. Try Again/Are You That Somebody
  7. Toxic
  8. Raspberry Beret
  9. Why Can't I
  10. Wise Up
  11. Brand New Colony/Nothing Better

Phonogenic (2003)

Produced by Gabriel Mann.

  1. Beautiful Day (U2)
  2. Sexual Healing (Marvin Gaye)
  3. Walking on Broken Glass (Annie Lenox)
  4. Push It (Garbage)
  5. The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby)
  6. Techno Fusion (Paul Oakenfold, Alice Deejay, Sonique)
  7. When There's Nothing (Jake Oken-Berg)
  8. The Boy Is Mine (Brandy and Monica)
  9. What's Love Got To Do With It (Tina Turner)
  10. Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
  11. Freedom 90 (George Michael)

Color (2001)

Produced by Gabriel Mann.

  1. Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
  2. Never (Libbie Schrader)
  3. Steal My Kisses (Ben Harper)
  4. Colorblind (Counting Crows)
  5. Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover (Sophie B. Hawkins)
  6. I Miss You (Incubus)
  7. Don't Let It Bring You Down (Annie Lenox)
  8. It's Gonna Be Me (N'Sync)
  9. Brick (Ben Folds Five)
  10. Sweet Child of Mine (Guns n' Roses)
  11. Isobel (Dido)

Prescription Only (1999)

  1. I Can See Clearly Now (Johnny Nash)
  2. Typical Situation (Dave Matthews)
  3. Cold Beverage (G. Love & Special Sauce)
  4. Criminal (Fiona Apple)
  5. Everlasting Song (Libbie Schrader)
  6. Come Undone (Duran Duran)
  7. Not Enough Time (INXS)
  8. With or Without You (U2)
  9. Without You (Jalin Hsu)
  10. Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)
  11. Streets of Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)

Notable Alumni

External Links

References

  1. ↑ claremontshades.com
  2. ↑ thescrippsvoice.com
  3. ↑ iTunes track list
  4. ↑ pomona.edu
  5. ↑ dailybulletin.com
  6. ↑ performingartslive.com