2009 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award Nominees

Submitted by CASAadmin on Fri, 01/30/2009 - 22:48

The following are the nominees for the 2009 Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards. Congratulations to all who participated and good luck to the nominees! The winners will be announced on April 1, right here on casa.org!

The top 10 male, female, and mixed collegiate albums will be posted on casa.org on March 1, 2009.

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Best Professional Original Song

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Songwriter

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Track

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Album

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Artist

Erik Bosio

Let You Go

Sing V: Groovus

Cluster

Erik Bosio (music) &
Hilda Dolittle (lyrics)

Never More Will The Wind

New Folder

Ghost Files

Josh Huslig

Manhattan Groove

Will Sing 4 Food

Mosaic

M. Renwall/T.
Vainikainen/J.
Backlund

Try To Forget Me

Helsinki

Fork

Naturally 7/Roger Thomas

Wall of Sound

Sing V: Groovus

Naturally Seven

Peter Björklund

En tyst minut

De vill att vi bugar
och niger (They want
us to bow and
curtsey)

Riltons Vänner

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Best Pop/Rock Album

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Album

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Artist

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Angoli diversi

 

Neri Per Caso

 

Big Mouth

 

Flying Pickets

 

De vill att vi bugar
och niger (They want
us to bow and
curtsey)

 

Riltons Vänner

 

Helsinki

 

Fork

 

Will Sing 4 Food

 

Mosaic

 

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Best Pop/Rock Song

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Artist

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Eisdame

Heute wie neu

muSix

 

Headlock

Happy Madness

Sixth Wave

 

Home

Will Sing 4 Food

Mosaic

 

Taivas Lyö Tulta/
Over the Hills

Helsinki

Fork

 

Tourniquet featuring
Mia Renwall

Sing V: Groovus

Liquid5th

 

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Best Hip-Hop/R&B Song

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Artist

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Freedom

Sing V: Groovus

Mauf

 

Ignition (Remix)

Three Sheets to the Wind

Hangovers (Cornell)

 

Stronger

Casual Harmony

Casual Harmony (Rutgers)

 

Wall of Sound

Sing V: Groovus

Naturally Seven

 

We Ride

On the Record

Loreleis (UNC Chapel Hill)

 

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Best Jazz Album

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Album

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Artist

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Bee Jazzex

Jazzex

 

 

Happy Madness

Sixth Wave

 

 

New Folder

Ghost Files

 

 

The Standard

Take 6

 

 

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Best Jazz Song

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Track

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Album

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Artist

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A Tisket A Tasket

The Standard

Take 6

 

I Wanted to Say

With the Windows Down

Chapter 6

 

Life's Too Good To Sing The Blues

Happy Madness

Sixth Wave

 

Spain (I Can Recall)
(Spain)

Voyage

ManSound

 

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Best Classical Album

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Album

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Artist

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American Choir Music

Amadeus Chor

 

 

Maria

Lumen Valo

 

 

Tormis

Holst Singers

 

 

While You Are Alive

Cantus

 

 

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Best Classical Song

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Track

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Album

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Artist

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Bolero

Sharing Time

InsideOut A cappella

 

Flight of the Bumblebee

Bee Jazzex

Jazzex

 

Gabriel's Message

Evensong

Voces8

 

Lux Aurumque

American Choir Music

Amadeus Chor

 

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Best Barbershop Album

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Album

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Artist

 

 

Now & Then

Voices in Harmony

 

 

Out to Lunch

Lunch Break Quartet

 

 

Vocal Spectrum II

Vocal Spectrum

 

 

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Best Barbershop Song

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Track

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Go the Distance

Vocal Spectrum II

Vocal Spectrum

 

Irish Lullaby

Mixed Nuts

A Completely
Different Note

 

Mr. Potatohead

Out to Lunch

Lunch Break Quartet

 

Old St. Louis

I Wish You Love

For Heaven's Sake

 

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Best Religious Album

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Album

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Artist

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Before the Throne

Rescue

 

 

Grateful Praise

Eclipse

 

 

When You Say Go

Testimony (Stanford)

 

 

Yesh Chadash

Six13

 

 

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Best Religious Song

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Track

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Album

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Artist

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All Creatures of Our
God and King

Grateful Praise

Eclipse

 

Awesome God

Sanctuary

No Better Cause

 

Shall We Gather At
The River

The Standard

Take 6

 

unleashed

Before the Throne

Rescue

 

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Best Folk/World Album

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Album

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Artist

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De vill att vi bugar
och niger (They want
us to bow and
curtsey)

Riltons Vänner

 

 

Ilembe: Honoring
Shaka Zulu

Ladysmith Black
Mambazo

 

 

Out From Yonder

Lilli Lewis

 

 

Simple Gifts

King's Singers, The

 

 

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Best Folk/World Song

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Track

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Album

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Artist

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Greensleeves

Simple Gifts

King's Singers, The

 

Mima'amakim

The Teal Album

Kaskeset (SUNY
Binghamton)

 

Sanguine Song

Out From Yonder

Lilli Lewis

 

Solskin

Take Off

vox 11

 

Szerelem, szerelem

Acappelland

Fool Moon

 

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Best Holiday Album

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Artist

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Chi Rho:
The Christmas Album

Chi Rho (Wake
Forest)

 

 

Holiday Spirits

Straight No Chaser

 

 

The Gift

Legacy

 

 

Tidings

Overboard

 

 

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Best Holiday Song

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Track

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Artist

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Carol Of The Bells

Holiday Spirits

Straight No Chaser

 

Christmas Lullaby

New Folder

Ghost Files

 

Have Yourself A Merry
Little Christmas

Cluster for Christmas

Cluster

 

We Three Kings

Tidings

Overboard

 

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Best Humor Song

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Artist

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In the Sun They
Melted (Snowmenn
II)

Sharing Time

InsideOut A cappella

 

Mr. Potatohead

Out to Lunch

Lunch Break Quartet

 

Ne'ilah

Yesh Chadash

Six13

 

Old Turkey

N/A

Mister Tim

 

You Got a "C"

Three Sheets to the
Wind

Hangovers (Cornell)

 

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Best European Album

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Album

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Artist

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Angoli Diversi

Neri per Caso

 

 

Bee Jazzex

Jazzex

 

 

Big Mouth

The Flying Pickets

 

 

De vill...

Riltons

 

 

New Folder

The Ghost Files

 

 

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Best Scholastic Original Song

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Songwriter

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Track

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Album

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Artist

Andrew Booth

As You Go

Disconcert

Pitchforks (Duke)

Ava Kerr

Hurricane Jane

Supernatural

B-Naturals
(The Brearley School)

Carl Petrillo

You Don't Know Me Very Well

You Can't Spell ROck without R.O.

Reverse Osmosis (USC)

Chris Bryant

Dancin' Thru

Disconcert

Pitchforks (Duke)

Maggie Smith

Move On

That's What She Said

Noteworthy
(University of Georgia)

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Best Mixed Collegiate Album

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Album

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Artist

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1929

Off The Beat (Penn)

 

 

All Things Go

APC Rhythm
(New York University)

 

 

Blink

ScatterTones (UCLA)

 

 

Escape Velocity

Harmonics (Stanford)

 

 

Smash

Chordials (Cornell)

 

 

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Best Mixed Collegiate Song

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Always Be My Baby

Blink

ScatterTones (UCLA)

 

Existentialism on
Prom Night

Psychoacoustic

Twisted Measure
(Elon)

 

Love Me Dead

Smash

Chordials (Cornell)

 

The Bird and
The Worm

1929

Off The Beat (Penn)

 

The Sound of Silence

Escape Velocity

Harmonics (Stanford)

 

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Best Mixed Collegiate Solo

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Soloist

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Track

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Artist

Billy Ferguson

Love Me Dead

Smash

Chordials (Cornell)

Carol Dowty

The Weight

All Things Go

APC Rhythm
(New York University)

Donna Budica

Losing My Ground

1929

Off The Beat (Penn)

Melinda Porto

Always Be My Baby

Blink

ScatterTones (UCLA)

Molly Swenson

Heart of the Matter

Off the Page

Opportunes (Harvard)

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Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement

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Arranger

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Track

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Album

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Artist

Ari Goldman

The Moment I Said It

Smash

Chordials (Cornell)

Charlie Forkish

The Sound of Silence

Escape Velocity

Harmonics (Stanford)

Christopher Diaz

Missing the War

17

All-Night Yahtzee (FSU)

Jonah Platt

Just A Phase

1929

Off The Beat (Penn)

Joyee Lin

Perfect Day

Enter Sound

Undertones (Northwestern)

Charlie Forkish

Imagination

Escape Velocity

Harmonics

(Stanford)

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Best Male Collegiate Album

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Album

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Artist

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Casual Harmony

Casual Harmony (Rutgers)

 

 

Disconcert

Pitchforks (Duke)

 

 

Give Us Back Our Spyplane!

Logarhythms (MIT)

 

 

The Green Room

On The Rocks (University of Oregon)

 

 

Three Sheets to the Wind

Hangovers (Cornell)

 

 

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Best Male Collegiate Song

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Ain't Nothing Wrong

Sing V: Groovus

Clef Hangers
(UNC Chapel Hill)

 

Atlantic

Disconcert

Pitchforks (Duke)

 

I've Got To Use My
Imagination

Casual Harmony

Casual Harmony (Rutgers)

 

Never Gonna Give
You Up

The Green Room

On The Rocks
(University of Oregon)

 

Where's the Love

Where's the Album?

VoiceMale (Brandeis)

 

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Best Male Collegiate Solo

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Soloist

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Artist

Adam Levine

Lately

Where's the Album?

VoiceMale (Brandeis)

Adamah "Zebo" Cole

Separate Ways/
Worlds Apart

Extraordinaire

Aires (Dartmouth)

Evan Graham

Ignition (Remix)

Three Sheets to the Wind

Hangovers (Cornell)

J. Aaron Boykin

I've Got To Use My
Imagination

Casual Harmony

Casual Harmony
(Rutgers)

Matthew Schoeneck

The Blower's
Daughter

Give Us Back Our
Spyplane!

Logarhythms (MIT)

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Best Male Collegiate Arrangement

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Arranger

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Track

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Album

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Artist

Adam Green

Where the Streets
Have No Name

No Size Fits All

Cords (Dartmouth)

Ben Wexler

Umbrella

What a Trip

Duke's Men (Yale)

Brad Stephenson

Christmas Time Is Here

Chi Rho: The Christmas Album

Chi Rho
(Wake Forest)

Orion Kanarek

Stereo

Casual Harmony

Casual Harmony
(Rutgers)

Stephen Clark

Atlantic

Disconcert

Pitchforks (Duke)

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Best Female Collegiate Album

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Album

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Artist

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No Apologies

BluesTones (James Madison)

 

 

Off the Record

Lady Blue (Duke)

 

 

On the Record

Loreleis
(UNC Chapel Hill)

 

 

Roots

Divisi
(University of Oregon)

 

 

That's What She Said

Noteworthy
(University of Georgia)

 

 

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Best Female Collegiate Song

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Track

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Album

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Artist

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19-2000

Rebirth

Blue Notes
(Wellesley)

 

Are You That Somebody

That's What She Said

Noteworthy
(University of Georgia)

 

Disobey

No Apologies

BluesTones
(James Madison)

 

In the Backseat

On the Record

Loreleis
(UNC Chapel Hill)

 

The Walk

Roots

Divisi
(University of Oregon)

 

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Best Female Collegiate Solo

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Soloist

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Track

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Artist

Celeste Doerwaldt

The Heart of the Matter

Pink is the New Black

Hoos in Treble
(University of Virginia)

Jillian Bauman

Magic Man

On the Record

Loreleis
(UNC Chapel Hill)

Melanie Bettis

Fools in Love

That's What She Said

Noteworthy
(University of Georgia)

Molly Richardson

Mama Who Bore Me

Roots

Divisi
(University of Oregon)

Monique Villalona

Everybody's Free
(To Feel Good)

Pronounced

Terpsichore
(Boston University)

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Best Female Collegiate Arrangement

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Arranger

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Track

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Album

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Artist

Gina Reppucci

There's Hope

Pronounced

Terpsichore
(Boston University)

Lisa Forkish

So Are You To Me

Roots

Divisi
(University of Oregon)

Maggie Smith

Let it Be

That's What She Said

Noteworthy
(University of Georgia)

Sarah Klein

In the Waiting Line

Roots

Divisi
(University of Oregon)

Stephanie Oh

How to Save a Life

Off the Record

Lady Blue (Duke)

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Best High School Album

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Album

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Artist

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Evolution

Eleventh Hour
(Kettering Fairmont HS)

 

 

Long Overdue

The A Cappella Group
(Cypress Lake Center
for the Arts)

 

 

Nonpareil

Luminescence
(Marblehead H.S.)

 

 

Supernatural

B-Naturals
(The Brearley School)

 

 

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Best High School Song

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Artist

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All of Me

Supernatural

B-Naturals
(The Brearley School)

 

Feeling Good

Splitting Center

Cary Grove Jazz Choir

 

Karmastition

Long Overdue

The A Cappella Group
(Cypress Lake Center
for the Arts)

 

Miss Independent

Nonpareil

Luminescence
(Marblehead H.S.)

 

The Sound of Silence

Evolution

Eleventh Hour
(Kettering Fairmont HS)

 

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Best High School Solo

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Soloist

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Track

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Album

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Artist

Brandon Williams

She Will Be Loved

evolution

Eleventh Hour
(Kettering Fairmont HS)

Katie Campbell

Hands

Long Overdue

The A Cappella Group
(Cypress Lake Center
for the Arts)

Shifra Sered

Hodja

ShenaniGanns

The Shenanigans

Skyler Newhart

Ain't No Sunshine

Splitting Center

Cary Grove Jazz Choir
(Cary Grove High
School)

Suzie Wyman

Miss Independent

nonpareil

Luminescence
(Marblehead H.S.)

 

CASA Board President, Julia Hoffman, served for the 5th year as the Director of the Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards. Jon Pilat, a singer, arranger, vocal percussionist, and previous CASA board member, served for the 5th year as the CARA Coordinator. Joseph Bates, a RARB reviewer, past President of the Alliance for A cappella Initiatives, and professional arranger oversaw the mixed collegiate awards this year. The coordinators also chose 38 fans and performers of varied backgrounds to spend months considering each of the albums submitted to the CARAs. Anyone holding a current or former affiliation with a group or album under consideration is not allowed to take part in the consideration of that award. To the nominators: Thank you all for your many hours of work! You are much appreciated!

 

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