2001 Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards Nominees
The CARA 2001 Nominees
Professional:
Artist of the Year:
Rockapella
Persuasions
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Toxic Audio
Best Pop/Rock Album:
five o'clock shadow - Wonders of the World
Cadence - Unplugged
Real Group - Commonly Unique
Rockapella - 2
Best Pop/Rock Original Song:
SoVoSo - Listen to the Rain
The Magnets - All The Wrong Reasons
Rockapella - Blah, Blah, Blah
five o'clock shadow - Images
Best Pop/Rock Cover Song:
17th Avenue Allstars - Don't Stop Believing
Cadence - I Wish
Rockapella - Tempted
Voice Male - Light In Your Eyes
Best Jazz Album:
Try-Tones - A Cappella Magic Box
Chizuru Matsunaga - We're All Alone
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Just For Kicks - All In Good Time
Best Jazz Song:
Just For Kicks - On Green Dolphin Street
Gold Company - Oh What a Beautiful Morning
Real Group - Thousand Things
Group 7 - Song For Toots
Best Doo-Wop Song:
The Persuasions - Loose Lucy (Might As Well: The Persuasions Sing the Greatful Dead)
The Persuasions - Love Of My Life (Frankly A Cappella: The Persuasions Sing Zappa)
Pure Gold - Tell Him (The Acappella Album)
Pure Gold - Love Potion Number Nine (The Acappella Album)
Best Barbershop Album:
Michigan Jake - For The Record
Signature Sound - Caught In The Act
Nightlife - Blues in the Night
Platinum - Be Our Guest
Best Barbershop Song:
12th Street Rag - 12th Street Rag
Signature Sound - Mama's Gone, Goodbye/I Used to Love You But It's All Over Now
Michigan Jake - I'm Beginning to See The Light
New Tradition Chorus - Do You Hear The People Sing
Best Religious Album:
InsideOut - Reverence
Vocal Union - Once Upon a Tree
Take 6 - Live
Acappella - Word of God
Best Religious Song:
Vocal Union - All About My Savior
Acappella - How Could You Say No
Jon McLemore - That Great Day
Total Experience Gospel Choir - Pass Me Not
Best Folk/World Album:
Artisan - Dancing With Words
Various - Vocal Music From One Earth
Black Slavics - Les Ange Compagnie
Bulgarian Voices - Voices of Life
Best Folk/World Song:
Peggy's Angels - Langshankit Lassie
Trinovox - Fainetai Moi
SoVoSo - Charity
Solstice - Blood and Gold
Best Classical Album:
Douglas Frank Chorale - The A Cappella Singer
Chanticleer - Magnificat
Anonymous 4 - 1000 - Mass for the End of Time
Tallis Scholars - Cristobal de Morales: Missa Si bona suscepimus
Best Classical Song:
Tallis Scholars - Andreas Christi famulus
Chanticleer - Regina Caeli Laetare
Anonymous 4 - Cives celestis patrie
Douglas Frank Chorale - Matona, mia cara
Best Holiday Album:
Chromatics - Unwrapped
Rockapella - Christmas
GLAD - Voices of Christmas
Gas House Gang - Some Children See Him
Best Holiday Song:
Chromatics - Silent Night
Gas House Gang - Go Tell It On The Mountain
GLAD - All Praise To You
Rockapella - Silver Bells
Best Comedy Album:
Bar & Grill Singers
FRED - Putting the "ha" in Harmony
The Heebee-jeebees - Heebee-jeebee TV
The Bobs - Coaster
Best Comedy Song:
Bar & Grill Singers - The Jury Sleeps Upright
The Heebee-jeebees - Channel 12
Acappella Gold - Renaissance Woman
Four Shadow - If
Collegiate:
Best Female Collegiate Album:
USC Sirens - Surreal
Tufts Jackson Jills - Snapshot
Stanford Counterpoint - Ticket to Anywhere
Middlebury Mischords - chaos of our own design
Best Female Collegiate Song:
Mischords - Love For Thee (Note: An original!)
USC Sirens - Special
Virginia Sil'hooettes - Snow on the Sahara
Stanford Counterpoint - Good Enough
Best Female Collegiate Arrangement:
Indiana Ladies First - The Boy is Mine (Elisa Carlson)
USC Sirens - Ray of Light (Guang Ming Easlon)
Stanford Counterpoint - Crush (Katy Chow)
Tufts Jackson Jills - Here With Me (Elizabeth Countryman)
Best Female Collegiate Soloist:
UC Berkeley Golden Overtones - Kaitlin L'Italien
JMU Note-Oriety - Mandi Meros
USC Sirens - Rachel Marotta
Yale Whim'n Rhythm - Katherine Hamm
Best Mixed Collegiate Album:
UPenn Off the Beat - Tribulation
Northwestern Purple Haze - Hooray for Everything
Tufts Amalgamates - Juice
Stanford Mixed Company - The Other Side of Blue
Best Mixed Collegiate Song:
Bostonians of Boston College - Uninvited
Michigan Amazin' Blue - Millennium
UPenn Off the Beat - Wild Horses
Tufts Amalgamates - I'm Your Baby Tonight
Best Mixed Collegiate Arrangement:
Northwestern Melodious Thunk - Say My Name (Willis White)
Northwestern Purple Haze - Bills, Bills, Bills (Matt Amador)
UPenn Off The Beat - Angels Would Fall (Ian Lear-Nickum)
Stanford Mixed Company - Someday (Doy Charnsupharindr)
Best Mixed Collegiate Soloist:
Harvard Callbacks - Erika Rhone
Northwestern Purple Haze - Molly Fix
Stanford Mixed Company - Billie Karel
Tufts Amalgamates - Becky Rubin
Best Male Collegiate Album:
Dartmouth Aires - InterplanetAIREy
Harvard Krokodiloes - Black Tie Affair
Iowa State Shaggy Boys - Take Luck
Virginia Tech Juxtaposition - Juxtaposition
Best Male Collegiate Song:
Iowa State Shaggy Boys - Owner of a Lonely Heart
Stanford Mendicants - Happy Together
Tufts Shanghai Crew - Come Undone
Virginia Tech Juxtaposition - Get Set
Best Male Collegiate Arrangement:
Dartmouth Aires - Sweet Child O' Mine (Adam Ballard, Eli Jorn=E9, Bub Cathca= rt)
Iowa State Shaggy Boys - What Would You Say (Matt Anthoney)
Middlebury Dissipated Eight - Black or White (Andy Mitton)
Duke Pitchforks - Crazy (Jason Park)
Best Male Collegiate Soloist:
Princeton Tigertones - Garrett Johnson
St. Olaf Limestones - Mike Espinoza
Virginia Tech Juxtaposition - Bradley Terrill
University of Virginia Academical Village People - Mark Manley