And
I'm not talking about the sound of silver bells, either. If you want a
little music to get you in the holiday spirit, you have more options
than there are cars jammed into the mall parking lot. It's
Christmastime in the city, and everyone from Allison Krauss to the
Barenaked Ladies to Regis Philbin has a Christmas album. Take, for
example, the gem I currently have sitting in my stereo: the Rockapella
Christmas album.
Dig this: the five-man a cappella group
graduated from Brown sometime in the '80s. A brilliant example of how,
at Ivy League universities, you can parlay an extracurricular activity
into a career, the intrepid young graduates sang on street corners in
the Big Apple. In 1992, they added a vocal percussionist. Rockapella as
we know it was born.
Read the whole article from The Harvard Independent: http://www.harvardindependent.com/media/paper369/news/2005/12/15/Arts/Cd.Review.Rockapellas.Rockapella.Christmas-1128685.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.harvardindependent.com
Click on the wrench in the upper left-hand corner to see what else you can do.