4/30/09: It's Been a Long Time!
The end of the school year is slowly creeping up on us, and we thought an update was in order. It’s been an incredibly successful year for The Beat. We’ve all grown so close to each other this year. We frequently use the word family to describe how we feel toward our fellow members. The commitment we’ve all shown to the group has truly reflected in the music we produce. We’ve had the opportunity to sing at some great venues. Fall quarter we sang at UCSD’s family day, Camp Kesem’s Fundraiser, Warren College’s winter wonderland concert, and many more. We also produced our annual Fall concert The Best A Cappella Show Ever in UCSD’s East Ballroom. It was a great success! We heard from all of UCSD’s groups (The Tritones, DOTs, and Frequency) as well as SDSU’s Sunset Clefs, and had nearly 400 people in attendance. You can watch videos of our performance on our Youtube Channel. During Winter quarter, we focused nearly all of our energy on the ICCA competition, which was held at UC Berkeley. We competed against some of the best groups in California, and we definitely held our own. We also were strong competitors in UCSD’s intramural bowling league! The Beat Down (great team name right?) was one of the top teams this year, and we always had a great time bowling together every week after our rehearsals. Spring quarter has just begun, and we’re very excited for all of our upcoming performances. During the past few weeks we’ve performed at the 4th annual Ballroom Show hosted by The Tritones, and UC Irvine ‘s CAFE. Please keep an eye out for more upcoming performances, including our 3rd Annual Spring concert extravaganza on June 3! It should the best one yet, with a theme that will knock your socks off!
10/06/2008: Congratulations...
To our new 2008-2009 Beaters: Melanie Jones, Erin Bower, Janey Kwok, Lokyee Au, Bobby Tang, Mike Purugganan, Sean Lee, and Thach Tran. Take a look at our members page for more information about all the members of the Beat! We're so excited to gain such a talented, fun, and amazing group of new singers this year, and we can't wait for all this year has in store for us! Check back for more updates, and keep a look out for more information on our fall concet in December!
9/15/2008: AUDITIONS! Sign Up HERE
As the summer begins to wind down, and the new school year looms over our heads, we can happily take comfort in one thing. The Beat is holding AUDITIONS for our 2008-2009 a cappella group! The Fall 2008 auditions will be held on Saturday, October 4 in Center Hall 212. Callbacks will be held the following day. If you love music, love to sing, or just love meeting new people and having a great time, please sign up online at www.acaspot.com/audition. Please come prepared to sing both the national anthem and a song of your choice. We look forward to seeing everyone on the 4th!
6/14/2008: Every New Beginning...
We all know the song... every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Sadly, this year is coming to a close. And, though this means 3 months of summer fun, it also means we must say goodbye to some of our favorite Beaters. Congrats to all of our seniors: Pei, Stephanie, Dana, and Phuc! You will be missed. Thanks for a great year everyone! We look forward to what next year has in store for us.
6/02/08 Pacific Beat!
Our 3rd annual spring concert extravaganza was a HUGE success! They laughed! They cried! And we all had a fabulous time! We all worked really hard on getting the show ready, and it paid off. Make sure to visit our photos and music page to see what went down!
5/03/08 California A Cappella Festival
Hosted by the UCLA Random voices, this was a great show! We had a ton of fun visiting and getting to meet all the groups!
4/12/08 Tritones Ballroom Show
This was a fantastic show, featuring groups from all over Southern California - Thanks for having us Tritones!
4/12/08 Relay For Life
What a great cause! We sang a few new songs and some classics and were impressed by the showing of people on the track supporting this fantastic cause. Thanks for having us!
3/13/08 DOTs Winter Concert
Another fantastic show by The UCSD Dots. Thanks for having us!
3/01/08 ICCA Quarter Finals
We had a blast competing and watching the show and hanging out at UCLA. And a big congrats to Fermata Nowhere who put on an amazing performance!
2/29/08 Fund-raiser for Camp Kessem
This show was a ton of fun and a big success for Camp Kessem - Thanks for having us!
12/7/07 Sunset Clefs Fall A Cappella Show
The Sunset Clefs put on a fantastic show, featuring Clefs of course, The UCSD Beat, The UCSD Tritones, The UCSD Dots, The UCLA Random Voices, The USC Sirens , and they even added other, non a cappella features into the mix. We had a blast - thanks Clefs!
12/1/07 Warren Holiday
It was a lot of fun performing at this event, and we got hot chocolate! Thanks, Warren College!
11/30/07 The Beat Fall Concert
The Fall concert was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who came out, we enjoyed performing to a packed auditorium. Look for a winter concert and another huge spring extravaganza!
10/7/07 Congratulations...
To our new 2007-2008 Beaters, Henry Johnson, Joseph Tsai, Alex Nguyen, Phuc Nguyen, Kristin Muench, Colleen Sheh, Alice Wu!!!
Summer 07 Feature!
The UCSD Beat was featured in the UCSD Guardian in an article about the a cappella groups on campus Students in Tune.