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Oct 26 2016

Introducing The Caroling Connection

The Caroling Connection - Dickensian Carolers who make Holiday memories

Great Expectations

That’s what the holiday season brings…Of warmth and happiness, friends and family, sleepy-eyed children trying to stay awake long after bedtime. The Caroling Connection helps set the mood with quartets and double quartets of costumed a cappella Christmas carolers with the highest musical standards and performance experience to welcome our audiences into not only the season, but connect with the larger Caroling Connection family.

How The Caroling Connection came about

2016 is the first year for The Caroling Connection. After performing for 22 years as a professional Christmas caroler and more, having sung with the Grant Park Symphony Chorus and many other musical opportunities from Rock to Opera and everything in-between, it was time. Time to create a group that embodies what I wanted to see and be during the holidays.

Starting with the highest standards in music and performers as the foundation, but knowing that there’s so much more to the group and the holiday season itself. The knowing wink of an eye when something seemingly impossible happens, the smile that spreads warmth and joy and just the outright excitement that is the holiday season. Friends and family, joining together in the spirit of the season. Bringing the best holiday entertainment in the Dickensian style with live music. Four or eight singers using their voices to bring cheer. Something special when you’re hoping for it and when it’s least expected.  That’s what it’s all about.

What The Caroling Connection does

The Caroling Connection is a quartet of Dickensian costumed a cappella singers who sing four-part holiday songs to provide an almost magical experience to our audience, helping to make holiday memories that last a lifetime. We’re trained musicians of the highest quality with experience to match that add that little something extra when you hear and see us sing. Some of the ways to use us are:

  • Caroling at your front door to welcome your guests
  • Strolling
    • Table to table at banquets or company dinners
    • Through a Reception or Cocktail hour
    • From store to store while your patrons are shopping
    • Throughout your company holiday party
  • Perform a set on a stage for events or meetings
  • Sing for your family holiday get togetherfor that special something extra
  • That surprise that no one is expecting
  • …And more

Our goal

Our goal is to create the atmosphere of warmth, joy and wonder that is a part of the holidays for your special event, party or business that will make a memory for everyone involved.

A Bit of Fancy

From time to time, we’ll post something from behind the scenes at The Caroling Connection, maybe a bit of fun or perhaps a new arrangement of a favorite carol, like this arrangement of Deck the Halls. This was done by our Head Voice, Jim Goodrich and the video features him singing all four parts. Of course, that won’t be the case when the Caroling connection sings it live, but like we said a bit of fun and behind the scenes all at once. Enjoy!

You can find out more about us by visiting The Caroling Connection’s website or using our Contact form.

Written by With A Voice Like This · Categorized: Music · Tagged: a cappella, carolers, Chicago, Christmas Music, Dickensian Carolers, holiday entertainment, live Christmas music, singers, The Caroling Copnnection

Oct 30 2008

074 – CD Baby is your digital friend

Recorded 23 October 2008

Well, it’s that time to be thinking about getting the Christmas CD out there for public consumption and I needed a new home for it. imagine my surprise when looking at CD Baby again and finding that they’re really into digital distribution. Maybe I didn’t look closely enough or maybe they’re doing more than they used to, but it’s there and the full range of offerings is the topic of this episode.

Topics included:

  • Why I went with CD Baby instead of a pre-order through my own site
  • What CD Baby offers with Digital Distribution and its payout
  • The comparison of selling the physical CD
  • The list of the digital partners with CD Baby
  • Turnaround for the digital partners
  • Bar codes and ISRC codes for digital distribution
  • Great customer service turnaround

Comments From The Podcast Gallery
instead of comments, this is an assignment for you, the Podcast Gallery. Since the digital partners don’t notify CD Baby when they have released my music, I’m asking the Podcast Gallery to let me know if they see my music on a download site. Write me here or call me on the Podcast Gallery voicemail line at 630.492.0487.

And while you’re checking out iTunes for my music, go ahead and subscribe to the show and leave a review.

Links
CD Baby.com – the website to sell your indie music CD the buyer’s side
CD Baby.net – Musician member site

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Written by With A Voice Like This · Categorized: Marketing, Show · Tagged: a cappella, CD, CD Baby, christmas, digital, downloads, iTunes, music, napster, rhapsody

Jul 25 2008

062 – A Tool and A Launch

recorded 24 July 2008

At Any Rate (00:00:32)
This episode takes a look at a tool I had seen trumpeted as a “copyright infringement assessment tool” PDTool, why I think it’s not a good tool and some much better alternatives for dealing with copyright infringement assessment as a new media person, Public Domain Music and the Podcasting Legal Guide.

4-AM (00:11:37)
This episode was also the official launch announcement of for http://4-AM.net [edit: neither the site nor group exists any longer], the official website for our a cappella group. A quick trip through the site, which took until the last minute before the show to get loaded (Ah the joys of downloading program patches when an app fails and conversion times) and it was ready to go by show time. Take a look, see what you think and let us know. Yay for it being launched!

Comments From the Podcast Gallery
Fellow Podcaster Kim Fenolio of the Girls Night In Podcast shared comments in the show among the rest of the Podcast Gallery.

If you’d like to share your Comments from the Podcast Gallery, you can leave a voicemail at 630.492.0487 or send an e-mail to [email protected] and it will be shared on the show. Your viewpoint is always appreciated.

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Written by With A Voice Like This · Categorized: Internet, Miscellaneous, Release, Show · Tagged: a cappella, assesment tool, copyright infringement, music, pdinfo.com, Podcasting Legal Guide, public domain

May 08 2008

051 – A ca What?

This episode of With A Voice Like This was prompted by the arranging I am doing for 4-AM and an announcement of a new contest for original a cappella pieces. There is a lot of confusion about a cappella music and what it is and so I thought I’d spend an episode exploring some good places to find out more information about it and give you access to a couple of podcasts featuring a cappella music. So here’s the list of links from this episode:

First, the A cappella originals songwriting contest submissions accepted through June 15 at:
[NOTE: page no longer exists]

The sponsors of the competition:

Vocality – A Colorado Vocal Ensemble

Virtual Voices [Edit: while the site still exists, it is not the same services as discussed in this podcast] – A company that helps sell your products on the Internet

Vocomotion – Recording studio and Labs producing products for A cappella singers

A cappella Organization

CASA.org – The Contemporary A cappella Society

A cappella Podcasts

A cappella Originals from casa.org

The Acapodcast with Chad Bergeron

And Finally, Listener’s Choice

This episode’s choice came from Kim Fenolio of Kimfenolio.com and the Girls Night In Podcast.

Kim sent in an introduction for Not Responsible by Podsafe Music Network artist Laura Clapp

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Written by With A Voice Like This · Categorized: Miscellaneous, Show · Tagged: a cappella, a cappella podcasts, acapodcast, casa, chad bergeron, music, org, singing, virtual voices, vocality vocal ensemble, vocomotion

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