12 talented, hypersocial, occasionally melodramatic but always entertaining people who love nothing more than singing ... except maybe eating.
Influences
UConn Conn Men, Transit, All About Buford, BC Dynamics, Tufts Beelzebubs, UVa New Dominions, Amherst College DQ, UMass Doo Wop Shop, Cornell Last Call.
Sounds Like
Songs in bold appear on our album.
Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel
Drive - Incubus Galileo - The Indigo Girls
In My Life - The Beatles
Love You Madly - Cake
Mummer's Dance - Loreena McKennitt
Stand By Me - Ben E. King Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
Songs from previous years:
Africa - Toto
And So It Goes - Billy Joel
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Christmastime Is Here - Vince Guaraldi
Come Go With Me - Del Vikings
Desperado - The Eagles
Don't Stop Believing - Journey For the Longest Time - Billy Joel
Heart and Soul - T'Pau
Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
King Of Pain - The Police
La Seis Cuerdas - Matthew Harris Like A Prayer - Madonna
My Love Dwelt In A Northern Land - Edward Elgar Penny Lane - The Beatles
Seasons of Love - Jonathan Larson
Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters
Waltz of the Flowers - Tchaikovsky
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Zombie Jamboree - Kingston Trio
"A cut above what you’re gonna get from most high school groups ... this is what I want to hear when I pick up an album." - Chad Bergeron, The Acapodcast
The Jewel Tones are Marblehead’s original coed a cappella group. Since 2003 we have performed with high school, collegiate, and professional groups from all over the country.
Buy our tracks on acaTunes!
The CD is sold out ... but you can buy many of our songs for $1 each at www.acatunes.com. Go check it out!
"Time After Time" featured on the Acapodcast and on WERS
We would like to thank Chad Bergeron for featuring us again on the Acapodcast - read our blog for more info on episode number 43!
Thanks also to Emma Evans and CG Grogan, hosts of "All A Cappella" on WERS 88.9, for playing our music on the show! We are big fans of "All A Cappella" and are thrilled to be a part of it - both on the air, and also on the stage ...
Jewel Tones earn two CARA nominations!
The 2008 nominations have been announced, and we have been nominated for Best High School Song ("Time After Time") and Best High School Album! Read our blog for more info on the CARAs.
The Jewel Tones appear on BOHSA 2008!
We are honored to announce that our recording of "Time After Time" will appear on the Best of High School A Cappella Compilation. Read our blog for more info!
Praise for "Tied Together"
Adolescents seek meaning and purpose in their lives. A big part of what we
do in a school is to help them find it - or at least point them in a
direction that might work for them ...
Last week, as I was rushing out to start my vacation I made a pass through
my mailbox and found the Jewel Tones CD "Tied Together". Somewhat
irreverently I tossed it in the back seat and drove off to the Berkshires.
The CD resurfaced when my daughter said "What’s this?" as the family drove
to a concert in Vermont. Well, what fun we had - alternately singing along
and getting teary-eyed at the lyrics and the compositions and the
extremely skilled voices. We argued a lot about the lyrics of Queen’s
"Bohemian Rhapsody", belted out the chorus of "Cecilia", but the song that
got all of us was the one originally sung by the Indigo Girls.
In that song there is a repeated refrain "How long ’till my soul gets it
right?" Sometimes (not always) it pays to listen to what kids are
listening to. The lyrics speak to the sincerity of a young person seeking
for truth, exploring, failing, chasing after "light" and just not quite
getting it all right.
This is a potent metaphor for the work ... that we do as your stewards
here at school. We encourage students to find a small portion of their
adult souls and encourage them that failure is fine as long as it is
preceded by sincerity and effort and belief.
We all look forward to working with you and your children in this exciting
quest. It is a bumpy and beautiful ride.
(By the way, the CD is really good and still on sale.)
- John Ziergiebel, Principal of Marblehead High School
we are very happy to tell you about the first a cappella festival taking place in Sweden! Sept 10-14 2008 in Västerås Concert House - 4 days with concerts, master-classes, workshops, seminars... and meeting with singers from all over the world.
Click at the image below to check out the festival web site. There you can read more about the festival activities, fill in the application form, or just dig the videos with the festival artists; so far: ourselves, Rajaton (Finland), Vocal Line (Denmark).
