Blending modern popular tunes with complex harmonies, brilliant beat-box rhythms and superb singing with more traditional songs, Face Vocal Band take their audience on a musical journey and it’s fantastic fun. Walking around Edinburgh during the Fringe you see a lot of things you may not see anywhere else. Everything from amazing circus acts to inspiring theater performances and confounding close-up magic acts. A recent arrival to the city caught my attention performing outside their venue to a small but […]

Nice guys don’t always finish first, but they do tend to finish well. That’s the payoff for the persistent craftsmanship of the men who’ve been part of Face Vocal Band. For fifteen years, they’ve carved out time from their work and family lives in and around Boulder to forge new music, an approach so unique they had to name it themselves — vocal rock, a propulsive, amplified a cappella act that’s not a Pitch Perfect knockoff, nor doo-wop, nor barbershop […]

Red Rocks is one of the most famous concert venues in the world, and playing at the legendary amphitheater in Morrison, CO, is on every band’s wishlist. As a group founded in nearby Boulder, the Face Vocal Band were no exception when they made their Red Rocks debut for a packed house on August 6. Most of the band’s five members grew up going to concerts at the iconic venue, thinking “maybe someday.” Not only did their dream come true, but they also became the […]