Straight No Chaser

I’ll Have Another… World Tour

After a 3 year absence, Straight No Chaser returns to Montreal on November 29, 2016, bringing their spot-on harmonies, energetic stage show and above all, a vocal talent that simply must be heard. Ten unadulterated human voices coming together to make extraordinary music that is moving people in a fundamental sense… with a sense of humor. With numerous national TV appearances, sold out shows across the globe and a recent 2-week run of shows in Paris, Straight No Chaser has built a reputation as an unforgettable live act.

If the phrase “male a cappella group” conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses… think again. Straight No Chaser (SNC) are neither strait-laced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch. As original member Randy Stine comments, “We take the music very seriously; we just don’t take ourselves too seriously.” In the process, they are reinventing the idea of a cappella on the modern pop landscape.

The group originally came together in the fall of 1996 at IU, basically as “10 guys who happened to be good friends who also liked to sing.” The group has reassembled and reemerged as a phenomenon – with a massive fan-base, more than 20 million views on YouTube, numerous national TV appearances, and proven success with two holiday releases, 2008’s HOLIDAY SPIRITS and 2009’s CHRISTMAS CHEERS. In an era when so much pop music is the product of digital processing and vocal pro-tooling, Straight No Chaser is the real deal – the captivating sound of ten unadulterated human voices coming together to make extraordinary music that is moving people in a fundamental sense… and with a sense of humor.

WITH A TWIST (2010) marked Straight No Chaser’s first full-length departure from holiday music, and marked the group’s highest debut on the Billboard 200 to date, at #29. Christmas, however, has been good for SNC. The group’s 2008 debut, HOLIDAY SPIRITS, hit No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Holiday Albums chart and spent two weeks in the No. 1 slot on Amazon and five days atop the iTunes sales chart. Its version of “The 12 Days of Christmas,” which incorporates Toto’s “Africa,” went Top 5 on the Adult Contemporary chart and was Top 10 on the Christmas radio chart. The subsequent CHRISTMAS CHEERS in 2009 was No. 6 Top Holiday Albums and rolled into the Billboard 200 at No. 38, while “The Christmas Can-Can” kicked its way to No. 18 on the Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.

Even after all the success, the members of Straight No Chaser don’t take anything for granted: “To think that the ten of us could go our separate ways after college, start professional lives, and then commit to putting SNC back together after all these years is nothing short of a minor miracle,” said original member Charlie Mechling. “With each opportunity to perform that comes our way, we are reminded of how fortunate and blessed we are to be able to do what we love to do.”

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