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Crestone Music Festival Program

Boulder Daily Camera

October 17, 2003

"The music wafting out of the New Orleans Brewhouse's back bar on a recent Monday night is unmistakable:

            'I see a little silhouetto of a man,

            Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?

            Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening-- me!'

   Yet, as heads turn at the bar, it quickly becomes clear that the strains of Queen's singular classic "Bohemian Rhapsody" aren't emanating from any jukebox, or the amps of some anonymous cover band running through its numbers from the Redfish's small concert stage.

   No, the complex and campy song is being reproduced, nearly note-for-note, by a six-man a cappella group called Cool Shooz. Not only do the Denver act's singers recreate Freddy Mercury's near-operatic vocals and harmonies, but they also provide their own backing music-- from cymbal crashes and jumpy basslines to Brian May's guitar solos-- all with their mouths.

   It's quite the finale-- rapturously received, no less-- for a set that's already included vocal renditions of the Beatles' "Come Together", Edgar Winter's "Free Ride" and the Who's "Pinball Wizard...Clearly, this isn't your father's a cappella..." 

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