Date and time
February 14 · 7pm - February 16 · 5pm PST
Location
El Segundo Performing Arts Center
640 Main Street El Segundo, CA 90245
The Los Angeles A Cappella Festival is a weekend-long vocal festival held in Los Angeles, California each year with the aim to bring the best a cappella performers, educators, and enthusiasts together in an academic forum to celebrate, appreciate, and advance vocal music as an art form.
A weekend full of insightful lectures, workshops, and masterclasses—covering topics such as arranging, recording, vocal percussion, and more—closes with an evening concert featuring the year’s festival headliners, which have included influential a cappella powerhouses such as The House Jacks, m-pact, SONOS, Mosaic, Duwende, Pentatonix, and Hookslide.
For both the budding scholastic singer and seasoned a cappella veteran, LAAF provides unique opportunities for instruction, networking, and exposure through showcases of talent and expertise by clinicians and performers by way of the classroom and stage.
For more event details, visit: https://casa.org/laaf/
Community Showcase
Friday, February 14
LAAF is back after another successful year! We’re thrilled to be kicking off LAAF 2025 with a community concert the night of Friday, February 14th. As a group in the showcase, you will have the opportunity to deliver a stunning performance on the main stage at El Segundo High School, opening night.
Bare Rhythm
BFOM
Mind the Gap
Scots-appella
Tritones
Workshops
El Camino College
16007 Crenshaw Blvd, Torrance, CA 90506
Saturday, February 15
Featured Educator Tehillah Alphonso
New-Jersey-born and Nebraska-raised, Tehillah Alphonso is a Nigerian-American vocalist, pianist, music director, and GRAMMY®-nominated arranger based in Los Angeles, California. A proud Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Southern California, she received her B.M. in Popular Music Performance from the Thornton School of Music and was named 2020 Outstanding Graduate, becoming the first Black woman in the pop program to achieve this award. While a full-time student at USC, Tehillah served as Business Manager and Music Director of USC’s premiere a cappella group and five-time ICCA champions, the SoCal VoCals.
Her time in the VoCals has led her to perform in venues such as the Staples Center, the Rose Bowl, Carnegie Hall, and many historic theaters in Los Angeles and New York. Upon graduating, she quickly made a name for herself in the session music industry, having sung on a number of films (Wicked, NOPE, The Color Purple, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) and television shows (Brooklyn 99, All American, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and alongside notable artists, including Chloe Bailey, Aloe Blacc, Lebo M, Billie Eilish, and Olivia Rodrigo.
Professional Showcase
Saturday, February 15
The Filharmonic
“The Filharmonic style mixes hip-hop sound with 90’s nostalgia...linking their passion for a wide variety of performance styles.”— HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
The Filharmonic, an LA-based a cappella group of Filipino-Americans who were featured in NBC’s hit musical competition, The Sing-Off, has much to sing about. After the show the 5-piece vocal group kept the momentum rolling with countless national and international shows, they were featured in the Universal Pictures hit movie, Pitch Perfect 2, and set off a viral sensation with their Late Late Show appearances.
They have performed with artists like John Legend, Shawn Mendes, and many more. The Filharmonic brings their unique blend of hip hop, pop, and R&B to stages everywhere and can be found on YouTube and all music streaming platforms. You can also check them out on social media @thefilharmonic.
LOCKED
Introducing, LOCKED. A new vocal group based in Los Angeles composed of four
singers from completely different musical backgrounds, who come together to create
one unique blend. With stripped down takes of your favorite pop songs featuring lush
harmony, they have locked in audiences worldwide to their sound.
LOCKED features Maddi Lasker, Yohanna Bauerdorf, Mateo Gonzales, and Raymond
Ortiz, who met while singing together in their collegiate a cappella group, the SoCal
VoCals. As session vocalists, songwriters, and award-winning arrangers, all members
studied or currently study at the USC Thornton School of Music, pursuing degrees such
as Popular Music and Jazz Studies.
Within one month of creating Locked, they have garnered millions of viewers across
TikTok and Instagram, allowing them to share their arrangements on a larger scale.
Driven by their tight friendship and passion for music, LOCKED has the vocals you've
been looking for.
TikTok, Instagram, Youtube: @lockedvox