Collegiate A Cappella

Collegiate a cappella (or college a cappella) ensembles are college-affiliated singing groups that perform entirely without musical instruments. The groups are composed of students and are typically operated and directed by students. The term a cappella may also refer to the music genre performed by pop-centric student singing groups. As a result, an ensemble that sings unaccompanied classical music is performing a cappella in the adjective sense of the term, but it may not be considered to be an a cappella group. A cappella groups can be found at many colleges and universities in the United States, and increasingly worldwide.