{"id":5501,"date":"2017-03-15T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:26:23","slug":"western-gets-vocal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/western-gets-vocal\/","title":{"rendered":"Western gets vocal"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Blayde Biacan\r\nStaff Writer<\/pre>\n<p>Western\u2019s very own a cappella event took place at the Smith Recital Hall on March 9. A cappella is singing without instrumentals. The experience had the performers doing their utmost in their talents, all the while still joking with the audience and themselves on<br \/>\nstage.<\/p>\n<p>Western\u2019s a cappella is separated into two groups. The male group is called 15 Miles West. While the female group is called Suspended. Their interactions on stage and between themselves show how close they are, \u201cWe\u2019re like a family\u201d said one performer.<\/p>\n<p>In the event, many well known artists and songs were performed. In order of their performances, the event started with 15 Miles West performing \u201cThis is Gospel,\u201d \u201cI Wish,\u201d \u201cJealous,\u201d \u201c7 Bridges Road,\u201d \u201cI Do\u201d and an Usher medley. It then transitioned to Suspended performing a Chainsmokers medley, \u201cAin\u2019t No Mountain High Enough,\u201d a Rihanna medley, \u201cHide and Seek\u201d and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2017\/03\/ACapella4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"212\" class=\" wp-image-5529 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2017\/03\/ACapella4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2017\/03\/ACapella4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2017\/03\/ACapella4-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/>a Colors medley. In the end they came together to sing \u201cNever Be Like You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only time that an individual stood out was in a solo, other than that, you could see and hear every performer and their music. Trying to focus in on one specific tune or person is hard. Despite there being no musical instruments besides the performers themselves, it sounds exactly like each song, which is truly what a cappella is.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the author at bbiacan16@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Blayde Biacan Staff Writer Western\u2019s very own a cappella event took place at the Smith Recital Hall on March 9. A cappella is singing without instrumentals. The experience had the performers doing their utmost in their talents, all the while still joking with the audience and themselves on stage. Western\u2019s a cappella is separated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":5529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}