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Ben Folds Goes Back to College, Sans Piano

Apr 16, 2009, 12:23pm

Ben Folds Goes Back to College, Sans Piano

Filed under: News , Exclusive While you were in your dorm room sleeping off last night's hangover, there's a good chance the kid down the hall was singing Ben Folds songs a cappella in a college-sponsored club. There are more than 1,200 a cappella groups on our nation's campuses, many of which -- surprisingly -- cover Ben Folds. When Folds found this out, he started a contest: he invited college a cappella groups to submit these covers via YouTube for review. He traveled to the winners' colleges to record their [...]

Artists: Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five

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