The Boulder Acoustic Society

The Boulder Acoustic Society is a quartet consisting of guitar, upright bass, xylophone and violin. The Boulder Acoustic Society performs in a diverse style that draws from jazz, Americana and other acoustic styles. Original music is priority, but creative arrangements of standards and well known tunes are also part of the Boulder Acoustic Society’s eclectic repertoire.

A typical Boulder Acoustic Society. show includes some ragtime, some swing, some country blues, a little ukulele and a bunch of hip original music. Scott Higgins, Brad Jones, Kailin Yong, and Aaron Keim are all accomplished performers and educators, each with a different background that helps to create the unique sound that is Boulder Acoustic Society.

The Boulder Acoustic Society was honored with 2nd place in the prestigious Telluride Bluegrass Festival's 2006 Band Contest and won the “Notes at 9,000 Emerging Artist Series” competition in Winter Park in 2004. They recently performed at “South by Southwest,” a prestigious music conference in Austin, TX and the New York Ukulele Festival. The quartet appeared with the Boulder Youth Symphony in a concert featuring original Boulder Acoustic Society. compositions, and performed and lectured at the First International Ukulele Ceilidh in Nova Scotia. In 2004, Singapore-born Kailin Yong (who won first prize in the Singapore National Music Competition, toured the world with the Asian Youth Orchestra, and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music) was awarded the Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin at the Mark O’Connor Strings Conference in San Diego. This violin will change hands each year and is meant to promote the concept of peace and harmony through music in memory of the slain journalist Pearl, also a violinist.