Dayna Brown LOVES to sing. She does it at home, in the car, and in public around strangers... too much? She holds a BA in Music Perfor-mance and Business from UMASS Lowell and has been performing for forever in myriad bands and ensembles. She is formally trained in classical, choral, opera, and jazz singing, but some of her favorite stuff is hip-hop, R&B, soul, and electronic music. Deebs brought her clarion alto to Funkin' A! in 2011, where she has also been a prolific arranger. Fun fact: she has a bunch of freckles on her arm in the shape of the Big Dipper!

Funkin' A! is an irreverent 7-part vocal band covering an eclectic mix of pop tunes and deep cuts from the 50s to the present. Based in Boston, we've been proud to perform at street festivals (Harvard Square's Mayfair), charitable events (The AIDS walk), vocal showcases (WERS's All A Cappella Live), local venues (The Landsdowne Pub), and private functions. Click the thumbnails on the left to learn about our individual members.
NIkole Luebbe was born in Omaha but grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona. With the help of her mother she picked up the cello at the ripe age of five and still plays. But it was in 3rd grade that she discovered that choral singing was her true calling. Senior year of high school she was fortunate to study as a classical voice principal at the famed Interlochen Arts Academy. Although Nikole's roots are strongly classical, she's found that she loves the whimsical pop arrangements in Funkin' A!, which she joined in 2011. She currently studies Music Business at Berklee College of Music.
Mo Lotman has been involved in the local music scene for about two decades, primarily as a keyboard player and songwriter in a number of original and cover bands. His singing experience includes the Concert Choir and musical theatre productions at Trinity College in Hartford, the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus in Cambridge, and vocals for his pop-folk bands Chalk Circle and Fragile Alex. Check out his work as a voice talent, writer, and other doings at his website. He's loving his first stint doing a cappella since he joined the group in 2009.
Mike Kadin lays down a variety of sweet beats in styles ranging from jazz, to rock, to hip-hop...all with his mouth, of course. He began as a bass in the co-ed group The Higher Keys of Brown University in 2004, but his role in the group transitioned from singing to almost exclusively mouthdrumming. With them, Mike competed in several ICCA contests where he participated in some intense drum battles to the judges' acclaim. Mike joined the group in 2009 and has been drumming with us ever since. In his other life, he works as a web developer.
Joe Pierandozzi has no formal training in music, but he'll be damned if that stops him from singing. Since high school he's performed in jazz bands and rock bands (all unofficially), and since 2010 he's been lending his voice and new-found arranging ability to the soulful stylings of Funkin'A!. When he's not singing tenor and trying to sell the group on yet another Beatles/Ben Folds song, Joe hangs out in Somerville and works at the Cambridge Innovation Center in Kendall Square with Liz.
Kyle Lad hails from the woods north of Bangor, Maine and is wicked proud to have survived The Great Ice Storm of '98 by subsisting on the traditional winter foods of his people. During his time at Dartmouth College, Kyle sang in the Dodecaphonics with Liz, played lead Bobby Strong in a production of Urinetown: The Musical, danced "creatively" in the inaugural Dartmouth Idol competition, and prattled about onstage as the Major General in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance as a member of the Glee Club. He joined Funkin' A! in 2011 and otherwise works as a software engineer fighting bank fraud at Memento, Inc.
Liz grew up in Seattle, but has been hanging in Boston since her 2008 graduation from Dartmouth, where she sang with and directed the Dodecaphonics. As a toddler, she demanded that her mother sing songs with her from Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes for hours daily, and has been in love with music since. You can sometimes catch Liz playing keys and singing originals or belting out wedding faves in a GB band. Otherwise, she's an Operations Associate at the Cambridge Innovation Center along with Joe. Liz has been super pumped to be with Funkin' A! since 2010.














