The girls took on an ambitious four-song set. Treble on Huntington was the second group of the night to perform. The two performers made light of the intense competition throughout the night, interspersing the performances with jokes, praise of the competitors and readings of tweets tagged #ICCA. The hosts of the night were Eileen O’Hara and Patrick “Paddy” Dennen, two members of a Boston-based semi-professional a cappella group Sound Off. “This year we managed to out score ourselves by almost 100 points and in the process we have all become closer and more open with one another.” “Every year we aim to compete with ourselves from the past,” Treble on Huntington’s Music Director Samantha Greenwald said. The Harvard Opportunes came in second, while The CharlieChords took the Northeast Quarterfinal Championship. Despite its best efforts, Treble on Huntington was not one of them, ending the groups ICCA run. On Friday, Treble on Huntington competed against The CharlieChords (Berklee College of Music), Ithacappella (Ithaca College), L’Shir (University of Hartford), The Macaulay Triplets (Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York), Mixed Emotions (Plymouth State University), The Harvard Opportunes (Harvard University) and S#arp Attitude (University of Massachusetts Amherst).Įach group had a 12-minute time limit and was judged on vocal performance, visual performance and subjective rank, with five judges scoring each team individually.Īt the end of the night, the competition’s top two groups were announced. All six of Northeastern’s a cappella groups are competing in the ICCAs. There are 45 groups competing in the Northeast region in a total of five quarter-final events, three of which will take place in Boston. This year, over 300 groups will compete across the country. The ICCA is one of the largest organized a cappella competitions in the world. Northeastern’s all-female a cappella group Treble on Huntington competed in the first round of the quarterfinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) at the Berklee Performance Center last Friday.
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