40 BOCA
Appearances as of 2006.
Well over
100 CARA Nominations and Wins, including the
only CARA award ever given specifically for Engineering (1992)!
11 "DeeBee" awards since 1987 from Downbeat
Magazine for Vocal Jazz recordings.
18 Albums in the RARB "Picks Of The Year" listings
as of 2006.
Record Highest overall RARB score for a Collegiate
A Cappella album (Talisman's 2000 Passage album - 5.0,
5.0, 5.0, 5.0, 5.0, 4.7, 5.0) still unbeaten after 6 years! Many
5.0 scores for Professional and Collegiate albums since the beginning
of the RARB scoring system in 1994.
"Today there are no producers more experienced than Bill
Hare, the World's only full-time A Cappella producer. Over the
years, Bill Hare's a cappella work grew as his reputation did...
His artistic touch now spans from the hills of San Francisco
to the Alps. The pro group client list includes The House Jacks,
Hookslide, and T Minus 5 in the U.S., and The Flying Pickets,
baSix, A-Live and Apes & Babes in Europe."
(from Mainely A Cappella 2005 Master CD Catalog, Southwest Harbor,
Maine)
"When we started recording the cd there was one thing
we knew: We wanted Bill Hare from California to mix the songs,
like he did on our last album 'Embodiment'. We really think that
his magic touch enhances the things that we believe are making
our sound unique and interesting. An important reason why we
won a CARA-award."
(From the baSix website, Aarhus, Denmark)
"What's impressive is that the songs blend together into
an album quite well, a tribute both to the voices of Divisi as
well as the skills of the venerable Mr. Bill Hare... Mr. Bill
makes fine use of a variety of effects and studio techniques,
creating a large, varied, and cohesive texture throughout that
is subtle and engaging but not distracting."
(Eric Skalinder, RARB Chicago)