Bare Voices and Blue Notes host movie concert

The Bare Voices and Blue Notes concert will take place Tuesday, February 24 at 7:30pm in the PAC.

This combination concert featuring the a cappella group Bare Voices and the singing and dancing group Blue Notes will have a theme, which is different from their holiday performance.

“This concert’s theme is movies, and with a theme, it allows us to do a lot more fun songs that people will actually know,” Rachel Sobol, junior in Bare Voices, said. “The songs we’re performing range anywhere from music your grandparents would know to very modern songs that any high schooler could come and see and still know the words.”

Though the concert features both Bare Voices and Blue Notes, the groups did not practice together, nor do they perform together during the actual show.

“Even though we don’t perform together, we still get to watch, and I know the songs Blue Notes are singing. It’ll be cool to sit in the audience and watch them perform the songs they’ve been working hard on as well,” Sobol said.

Bare Voices has spent the past few weeks polishing their songs, and Blue Notes has also been working to prepare their dances for the performance.

“We have been rehearsing every day in class in which we alternate between singing days and dancing days. In a week or so we have our night rehearsal where we will do the final polishing on the dances to make sure everything looks good before the show,” Amanda Fiddler, junior in Blue Notes, said.

According to Fiddler, having a theme as broad as movies has allowed Blue Notes to create different types of dances that they may not normally perform.

“This should be a really interesting concert because we have more slow, ballad-like songs, but we also went with more modern with a hip hop based song, so there should be a dance for everybody,” Fiddler said.

Overall, Fiddler believes that Blue Notes will be able to hold their own this concert and put on a high-quality show.

“Bare Voices is always really good no matter what, and whenever you go and see them, you’re going to be impressed, guaranteed,” Fiddler said. “Blue Notes has… gotten a lot more intense about what we’re doing and we enjoy it a lot more, which means we can now put new things in the dances we wouldn’t have been able to do before.”