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Chrys Weedon<\/strong> | Entertainment Editor<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLast year was our\u2026first time integrating and so now we\u2019re starting out this year strong,\u201d said A Cappella club President Violet Trammel. At the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year, Western\u2019s two A cappella groups \u2014 Suspended and 15 Miles West \u2014 integrated and became one coed group. Since then, they have been focusing on performing more events, and gaining more visibility through community outreach.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s cool about this year, opposed to last year, we\u2019re actually doing a fall concert,\u201d said Vice President Cole Aldred, \u201cwe didn\u2019t last year because it was kind of a hard transition to get the new cohesive group in motion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Last year, The West of Us was part of the ICCA competition: the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. The event took up a lot of time, which resulted in the club being MIA for most of the year. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSometimes people are like \u2018we have an acapella group?\u2019\u201d said Trammel when asked why she wanted to focus on getting more visibility on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n The A Cappella club is completely student-led. Most of the songs performed by the club are arranged by its members. There are 16 members total, which helps the group achieve things they weren\u2019t able to when there were two separate clubs. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOverall, in terms of musicality and things that we\u2019re able to achieve, integrating has been the best for us. We can make so much more and we can do so much more with our songs having a larger group,\u201d remarked Trammel.<\/span><\/p>\n Both the President and the Vice President agree that their favorite part of being involved in A Cappella is the friendships they\u2019ve formed during their time in the club. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe friendships you make in A Capella are super lasting and they\u2019ve been the closest people to me,\u201d commented Trammel.<\/span><\/p>\n The West of Us holds auditions for performance roles every fall term: \u201cWe\u2019re looking for people that wanna have fun, that are musically inclined, and that want to have a good time on stage,\u201d said Trammel.<\/span><\/p>\n