Sing That Thing! Music Competition Comes To New England Area

From WGBH: Sing That Thing!, WGBH’s competition for New England’s amateur singing groups, will premiere on Friday, April 7, at 8:30pm on WGBH 2. Season 3 will showcase 18 ensembles, representing genres from Top 40 and Renaissance music to classical and jazz, who will vie for the championship title over the course of seven episodes.

“Sing That Thing! brings together an impressive collection of talented New England voices,” said Liz Cheng, WGBH’s general manager for television and co-executive producer of Sing That Thing!. “I am so proud of WGBH’s commitment to the music arts and to sharing wonderful performances with audiences across the region.” High school, collegiate and adult singing groups will perform for coaches who will select one group from each category as well as a wild-card group to move on to the final round. In a live-to-tape finale, the top group from each category presents its unique spin on a song of its choice.

The Sing That Thing! coaches are Anthony Trecek-King, president and artistic director of the Boston Children’s Chorus; Annette Philip, a vocalist, composer/arranger and faculty member at Berklee College of Music and winner of the 2014 national Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Championship with her quartet, Women of the World; and Jared Bowen, WGBH News executive arts editor and host of WGBH’s Open Studio with Jared Bowen, Boston television’s only local arts series. Together, the coaches provide constructive feedback to each group and ultimately determine which ones will advance to the next round.

“Congratulations to our groups and to the entire Sing That Thing! crew,” said co-executive producer Patricia Alvarado Núñez. “The series is a wonderful showcase for the talent and diversity of New England voices.” Sing That Thing! is WGBH’s newest original local series. Funding is provided by Eastern Bank and Emerson College. The series is produced by public media producer WGBH, in partnership with Emerson College and with WGBY (Springfield, MA,) Maine Public, New Hampshire Public Television, Vermont PBS and CPTV - Connecticut Public Television. Sing That Thing! will be seen across New England in every state thanks to these partner stations.

Now in its third season, Sing That Thing! premieres April 7 at 8:30pm on WGBH 2. More information about the series is available at SingThatThing.org. Join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook at @singthatthing.

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