Rockapella Will Sing You Home for the Holidays at The Ridgefield Playhouse

Sprinkle your holiday season with vocal magic! Rockapella brings it's exciting, internationally acclaimed, a cappella sound back to The Ridgefield Playhouse with a night of holiday classics on Sunday, December 17 at 8pm. This all-male acapella quintet brings you the hits you know in an exciting new way. This Pepsi Rock Series Powered by Xfinity performance includes everything from the standards you know and love like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas to a funky rendition of You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch to holiday originals by member Scott Leonard. They've become one of the world's most sophisticated, lasting, and imitated vocal groups around today. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more influential group out there in this new era of network television a cappella shows like NBC's The Sing-Off, movies like Pitch Perfect, and innumerable college vocal groups that own the corner of cool on campuses everywhere. Since the early '90's when they first achieved national television fame on PBS's Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, they've toured the globe and provided a funky powerful soundtrack to several generations of vocal music fans, while keeping it all fresh along the way. With buckets of catchy original pop songs, and complete contemporary revisions of sparkling Motown, pop, and soul classics, this group has always been the one to watch. "Often imitated - never duplicated" applies here. Now they're better than ever! As one of the progenitors of the astonishing full-band sound of "contemporary" a cappella, Rockapella has shown every audience the raw power of pure vocal talent and originality.

The current Rockapella line-up features Scott Leonard (since 1991, High Tenor), Jeff Thacher (1993, Vocal Percussionist), Calvin Jones (2013, Tenor), Mitchell Rains (2016, Tenor), and Bryant Vance (2016, Bass). This line-up marks a new generation of Rockapella, who remain keenly focused on musical excellence. "People have a hard time believing it's just us making all of that music. It's still those same elements that make modern band music: percussion, bass, melody and harmonies," says Scott. "Our success is in the art of it - it's not what you do, but how you do it!" adds Jeff. And Rockapella has indeed proven that forming original pop & soul magic onstage is what sets them apart.