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Orange Appeal
12+ albums
a capellaboy bandscollege groupscollegiate a capella
about
Any old musical group can put on a performance if they've got their instruments in hand, but it takes real talent to be able to put on a show with no instruments at all. That's where Orange Appeal takes the stage. As Syracuse University's only all-male a cappella group, Orange Appeal delivers tight harmonies and uncanny arrangements of well-loved songs using only their voices. Guitars, keyboards, violins, and even sound effects are all done entirely vocally. Even the drums are imitated by a vocal percussionist, or VPer. These arrangements haven't come from any song book, though. All the group's arrangements are made by its members. They find a piece they like, listen to every musical detail, and the rewrite it entirely for voices. Even more impressive is that the group is entirely student-run. With no hiring out for music direction, publicity, or booking of performances, the group remains entirely self-sufficient. It wasn't always that way, however. Surprisingly enough, when the group was originally founded in 1997, it was a subgroup of Syracuse University's Men's Glee Club. The group, however, soon decided that they would rather run themselves, and split off from the choir. After spending a few years rogue, completely independent of the university, they officially went back to being a registered student organization in the spring of 2004, this time, independent of the choir and seeming more like a boyband than any glee club. Even with a stunning musical variety, ranging f
