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Fairmont High’s a cappella choir selected for NBC’s Sing-Off show

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By Jeremy P. Kelley, Staff Writer Updated 11:57 PM Thursday, October 21, 2010

KETTERING — Fairmont High School’s student a capella choir, Eleventh Hour, will compete against nine other singing groups on NBC’s nationally televised competition called The Sing-Off, to be broadcast this December.

The top group will win the grand prize of a Sony Music recording contract and $100,000. Music categorized as “a capella” features only singing, with no instrumental support.

The second-year show, hosted by recording artist and Cincinnati native Nick Lachey, will air on five days in December, with two-hour shows at 8 p.m. Dec. 6, 8, 13 and 15. The top three groups will compete in the live finale at 8 p.m. Dec. 20.

Eleventh Hour’s studio recordings have been featured on “Best of High School A Cappella” and have won two Contemporary A Cappella Recording Academy awards. The seven Fairmont students who make up the group are Anna Townsend, Emily Gatlin, Claire Keathley, Kendall Young, Colton Jones, Bobby Symes, Kurt Zimmerman.

“The Sing-Off” will include a capella groups from Alabama, Massachusetts, Washington, California, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee and Connecticut. Kettering’s high school students will compete against Yale University’s 14-man senior choir and a group from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, among others.

In addition to Lachey as host, The Sing-Off features celebrity judges Ben Folds of Ben Folds Five, Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men and Nicole Scherzinger of The Pussycat Dolls.

Epic Records will release digital tracks of each group’s performance immediately after the airing of each episode. All 10 competing groups also will be featured on “The Sing-Off: Harmonies for the Holidays” being released Nov. 30.

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