Inspired by Storm Front quartet's rendition of this amazing medley by Richard Gregory, I arranged if for double choir. Each choir part is fairly easy, but they combine to make a lovely mess!

Christmas Soup [SATB+SATB]

This modern song by Train has some really strong harmonies in the chorus, and while I was looking for mixed a cappella tracks I thought it would work well for a men's group.

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Drive By [TTBB]

For Harriet Freeman.

Having already arranged an Avenue Q medley, I thought that this would be the most successful complete song for a cappella, and arranged it for ladies' quartet.

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There's A Fine, Fine Line [SSAA]

TUBBS A Cappella (one of my choruses) wanted to sing some more modern songs, so I worked my way through about 20 of the That's What I Call Music series, and picked out some songs to arrange. This song by fun. (I think the full stop is important) is the first of them, for eight-part mixed chorus.

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Some Nights [SSAATTBB]

Some of the most harmonic tunes from the musical Avenue Q arranged into a medley for a cappella chorus:

The Avenue Q Theme
There's A Fine, Fine Line
What Do You Do With A B.A. In English?
For Now

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Avenue Q Medley [SSAATTBB]

Pat Ballard's Mister Sandman has been arranged for many, many quartets, but I felt that they didn't really do the original band arrangements justice. I discovered that this was for a good reason, and this arrangement is faithful, but rather difficult to sing. Also watch out for the computer's version of "Liberace"...

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Mister Sandman [SSAA]

Yet another joint concert finale, this time for Big Band, two SATB choirs and lead vocals, this Shakin' Stevens classic went across very well with the audience.

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Merry Christmas Everyone [big band + SATB + SATB + lead]

Heard once at a party, and I decided there and then that I would make this into an a cappella anthem. The ending just seemed to go around and around to a daft extent, so I rasied the stakes by including shameless semitone key changes every half-chorus to the end!

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It's My Life [SSAATTBB]

An old favourite of mine, this song came into my head as I was looking for something intimate and Christmassy with a new a cappella group. The original by Bing Crosby and David Bowie is on huge numbers of Christmas compilations.

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Peace On Earth - Little Drummer Boy [SSAATTBB]

I heard another a cappella group do the Muse song Starlight and decided I wanted to do one of my own as an eight-part arrangement; this is The University of Bristol Barbershop Singers with the result.

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Starlight [SSAATTBB]

Wham's song was featured on an episode of Family Guy that I was watching, and it worked so well with a group that I wanted to arrange it for a cappella chorus.

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Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [SSAATTBB]

Again for the annual charity concert with a large concert band in Northampton, my arrangement was premièred at the same time as the last night of the Proms in the year of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, so includes eight patriotic tunes, ending with the audience singing Rule, Britannia! and Land Of Hope And Glory.

Nimrod by EDWARD ELGAR
I Vow To Thee My Country (Jupiter, from The Planets) by GUSTAV HOLST
The Great Escape by ELMER BERNSTEIN
The British Grenadiers (Traditional)
Dam Busters March by ERIC COATES
Rule, Britannia! by THOMAS ARNE (words by JAMES THOMSON)
Land Of Hope And Glory (Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1) by EDWARD ELGAR (words by ARTHUR BENSON)
Jerusalem by HUBERT PARRY

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A British Jubilee [concert band + choir]

Each year, my choir has got together with a Big Band for a Christmas concert, and we always do some carols at the end with the audience. To tie them together, I've usually written a fanfare; this is 2012's effort!

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