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Rockapella for the Holidays

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authorStaff Writer on Nov 30, 2022

On Sunday, December 11, at 7 p.m., Suffolk Theater in Riverhead presents “A Rockapella Christmas.” Rockapella has become one of the world’s most sophisticated, lasting, and imitated acapella groups around today. Since the early 1990s when first achieving national fame on PBS’s “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” the group has toured the globe and provided a funky powerful soundtrack to several generations of vocal music fans, while keeping it all fresh along the way.

With buckets of catchy original pop songs, and complete contemporary revisions of sparkling Motown, pop, and soul classics, this group has always been the one to watch.

As one of the progenitors of the astonishing full-band sound of “contemporary” a cappella, Rockapella has shown every audience the raw power of pure vocal talent and originality. “There’s nothing in the way between us and the audience; it’s very human music,” says Rockapella’s human beatbox Jeff Thacher. “No instruments, no tracks, no mirrors … but never lame.”

This holiday season, Rockapella is bringing holiday classics to The Suffolk in “A Rockapella Christmas” and audiences of all ages will hear favorite tunes like “Silver Bells,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and so many others that the whole family will enjoy.

Tickets for “A Rockapella Christmas” are $39 to $59 at suffolktheater.com. Suffolk Theater is at 118 East Main Street, Riverhead.

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