John Baer (a cappella singer)

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"John Baer has been a music and singing junkie since his early years. He got his start belting out tunes in the schools, churches, various administrative buildings and street corners in his home town of Fredericksburg, Va, using nothing but a set of vocal chords and occasional accompaniment from a $30 plastic guitar. His high school singing group took him to the U.K. in 2000, where he sang in cathedrals and British high schools and was also sad to discover the Beatles museum in Liverpool to be quite a disappointment. (A 'Yellow Submarine' made out of cardboard was the least of its horrendous transgressions.) From these inauspicious beginnings, John's musical successes rose to the level of slightly-less inauspicious. John entered college at Virginia Tech in 2003 wherein he got his first real taste of a cappella music, (barring a brief stint as a Gregorian monk during the late 11th century), when he joined up with Juxtaposition, an all-male a cappella group. They toured the east coast and even got the chance to sing for the whole Bush family, (minus Dubya) at an event for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy in 2006. (This event later proved to be sadly ironic when it was discovered that nobody in the group had a clue how "Juxtaposition" was spelled.)

These days he can be found performing with Euphonism as their primary vocal percussionist. His new role with the group has left him with a debiltating case of Percussion Language Disorder or "PLD", wherein he can only communicate using vocal percussion sounds (A snare hit means "Yes", bass drum kick means "No" and a hi-hat means "Hope you enjoyed the show!").

Yet despite it all, John loves performing with Euph, and hopes that everyone who comes to the shows is entertained and walks away smiling!

Group Members

Amanda Aldag Gillian Sowray Lindsay Hower Jordan Jason Sam Joe Kang Guy Divita