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One of the most successful indie bands working today will be featured in concert at Rockefeller Arts Center on Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall.
Ball in the House, a soul-pop/R&B vocal band out of Boston, will take the stage for a one-night-only event.
The band has opened for and performed with such artists as The Beach Boys, Fantasia, The Jonas Brothers, Corbin Bleu, Gladys Knight, Lionel Richie, Jessica Simpson, Blondie, The Temptations and Smoky Robinson. They also wrote and recorded a Cool Whip campaign for Kraft Foods.
Ball in the House was recently runner-up on CBS’s Living Room Live Battle of the Bands. The Boston Globe says of the group, “Ball in the House has everything you would expect to find in a successful pop/R&B band… the one thing it doesn’t have is instruments.”
The band is comprised of Jon J. Ryan (vocal percussion/beatboxing), Dave Guisti (tenor), Aaron Loveland (tenor), Dan Szymczak (baritone) and Ryan Chappelle (bass).
Their first radio single, “Something I Don’t Know,” charted for six consecutive weeks in the Top 100 on the national AC Charts, peaking at No. 17. The single “Change Face,” from the “Think About It” EP, received national and international radio and video adds and won an honorable mention from the 13th Annual Billboard Song Contest.
The song “Get It Together,” released exclusively online through burnlounge, soared to the No. 1 slot for the week March 7th, 2006. With burnlougne.com’s song catalog of over 1.5 million songs including artists like Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay, Kelly Clarkson and James Blunt, this is an unprecedented achievement for an independent band.
Much More Chill, SUNY Fredonia’s student male a cappella singing group, will also participate in the program.
Tickets for the concert are available at the SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office in the Williams Center, online at www.fredonia.edu/tickets or by phone at 716-673-3501 (1-866-441-4928).
