February 17, 2008
Faux Paz Win 1st Place at ICCA Quarterfinals!
At last night's quarterfinal of the
International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella, we competed against
six incredibly talented groups from across Virginia, Maryland, and D.C.
We are thrilled to report that we took home first place at the show,
which was hosted by the great folks from DoubleTake at the College of
William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. Congratulations to our very own
Jon Resnick, who took home the award for Best Vocal Percussion!
Along with DoubleTake, we will now advance to the National Semifinals on
March 29 at Wake Forest University. Stay tuned for more details!
February 1, 2008
Crisis Control
Nominated for Album of the Year!
Our newest album, Crisis Control, has been
nominated for a 2008 CARA (Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award) for Best
Mixed Album of the year! See the full list of nominees on
CASA's website.
November 7, 2007
Faux Paz to Appear on BOCA 2008!
We are thrilled that our track "Other Side of the
World" has been selected to appear on
BOCA 2008, an annual compilation of the best collegiate a cappella
music put out every year! Now in its 15th annual installment, BOCA was
the first compilation CD of its kind and remains the most widely-distributed
collegiate a cappella CD each year. Thanks very much to the folks at
Varsity Vocals for this incredible honor! Copies of the BOCA album
will be available on our website and at our shows as soon as it is
available.
November 1, 2007
Faux Paz Selected for International Compilation "SING IV"!
We are very excited to announce that our track
"Heaven's A Lie" has been selected to appear on
SING IV, a compilation of some of the best a cappella music from around
the world! Congratulations to arrangers Dave Gradin and Crystal Thomas
and to soloist Lauren Levine! Sing is an annual compilation produced
by the
Alliance for A Cappella Initiatives that features the top collegiate AND
professional tracks of the year. This year's Sing will be released
next weekend at the SoJam festival in North Carolina-- make sure to order
your copy from our website ASAP! Thanks very much to everyone at the
AACI for this honor. Make sure to order
Crisis Control
if you haven't already done so!
September 9, 2007
Welcoming Our Newest Members!
The Faux Paz are extremely excited to welcome five new
members this semester: Laura Palantone, Mala Sathe, Carly Wade, Marcus
Johnson, and Arnell Limberry! We are thrilled to have each one of them in the
group. Pictures and bios for all of them will be up on the website
soon. Auditions were really tough again this year-- we had more than
80 people try out over our 2 nights of auditions. Thanks again to
everybody who tried out... please consider coming out again next year!
Info about performances this semester will be posted soon; check out the
events page for
details.
August 25, 2007
RARB Reviews Crisis Control
Our new album Crisis Control received very
positive reviews from the
Recorded A
Cappella Review Board (RARB) today. A few excerpts from the
reviews:
-"This co-ed group has finally made a whole album that captures the
joyous rapture of one of their live performances."
-"The talent
is present in all aspects of musicality with great blend and balance between
the voices."
-"It
would be a terrible crisis if you didn't pick up the newest album by The
Faux Paz."
-"Better-conceived
than three-quarters of the scholastic albums I have heard,
Crisis Control is
effective and impressive."
Thanks very much to all the reviewers for their comments!
Click here to read the full review at RARB.org.
May 23, 2007
Faux Paz to be Featured on
Maryland Public Television
The Faux recently taped a segment that will appear on
the program "ArtWorks This Week," a program that airs weekly on the
Maryland Public
Television network. MPT has six stations that air all around the
state (channel 67 in Baltimore, channel 22 in the DC suburbs). The
segment will air on Wednesday, June 6 at 7:30-- don't miss it!
May 19, 2007
Crisis Control
Gets Radio Play in Boston
"All A Cappella," a program on the Boston radio station
WERS, has
recently been playing tracks from our new album Crisis Control.
To hear us and other top collegiate and professional a cappella groups,
check out Julia Avanti's show every Saturday and Sunday from 2PM to 5PM.
The station is available via streaming audio on WERS's website and on iTunes
in the "Eclectic" section.
May 17, 2007
Faux Paz Selected for 2007
"Voices Only" Compilation!
Our song "24" has been selected to appear on the 2007
edition of
Voices Only, an annual compilation of the top collegiate a cappella
tracks from all around the country. We're very excited to see this
national recognition for our new album
Crisis Control,
which was released last month at our Big Show and is available for
purchase right
here on our website. Congratulations to soloist Amanda Jabes and
arranger Jackie Congedo for this honor! VO 2007 will be available in
the fall, but until then, check out
mp3 clips from
Crisis Control and order your own copy!
April 4th, 2007
April 20: Spring Big Show &
CD Release
This spring's Big Show is going to be an especially
exciting one for us. We spent an entire week back in January down at JGP Studios in Charlottesville, Va. with award-winning a cappella producer
James Gammon, working hard on our 4th studio album, entitled
Crisis
Control. We will be releasing this CD at our Big Show on
April 20th and we're very excited with how it sounds! Check out the
tracklist and
other information here on our website-- this album features 11 of your
favorites from the last 3 semesters, including all of our new arrangements
from the fall '06 semester. This Big Show is also very special because
its the last one for our five departing seniors. The show starts at
8PM in the Memorial Chapel here on campus, and all you need to get in is 5
bucks! Sound engineering will be provided by the a cappella pros at
Liquid 5th
Productions, based in North Carolina.
