Articles tagged with: Yale a cappella

By   |   March 26th 2012

Out Of the Blue (known as OOTB, pr: “ooht-buh”) won first place at the Northeast Semifinal of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA, no idea how to pronounce it) this weekend. “International” might be pushing it a little, since of the tournament’s six regions, only one is not in America. And that “region” …

By   |   September 21st 2011

Here’s a video our freshman contributor Cindy grabbed at the High Street Gate a little while ago, when the Pundits staged a mock protest against a cappella groups “branding” freshmen. The protest went on a for a couple minutes and included homemade branding irons, and it kind of petered out by the time the Whiffs …

By   |   April 6th 2011

Last night, in the crowded and majorly overheated nave of Sterling Memorial Library, the new members of the Whiffs and Wim N’ Rhythm performed for the first time. They sounded great! And the library looked pretty majestic itself, giving the whole event a nice mix of boisterous Yalies supporting their friends and old Yale and …

By   |   December 7th 2010

The Whiffenpoofs had quite a show on last night’s “The Sing Off”: their performance, uniform, and discussion during the show sparked a debate from people who blog about really important things like “The Sing Off” (as opposed to people who blog about people blogging about “The Sing Off”). Linda Holmes of NPR’s Monkey See blog …

By   |   October 22nd 2010

It’s Family Weekend! This means you are either in a group, in which case you are performing so your parents can see you, or you know someone in a group, in which case you are bringing your parents to see that person, or you don’t know anyone in a group, but you need something to …

By   |   September 16th 2010

Scheduling conflict puts members, rushees between a rock and a hard place.

By   |   April 22nd 2010

The best in the biz for women’s a cappella.

By   |   April 22nd 2010

Thanks to the Spizzwinks (?) Twitter, we have the list of this year’s new Whiffenpoofs.

By   |   April 20th 2010

Sam Tsui, Yale’s most famous a cappellist, first encountered the cast of Glee when performing their version of Don’t Stop Believing on the Alexa Chung Show. But it looks like it may not be the last.

By   |   February 4th 2010

Now it’s the boys’ turn to face the music.

By   |   February 2nd 2010

Amidst much sturm und drang, the Bullblog sent out a survey to all those in the a cappella community asking for their opinion on each of the singing groups on campus.

By   |   January 6th 2010

What happens when a city known more for its street smarts than its smarty a cappella collegians gets stormed by two Yale a cappella groups?

By   |   September 27th 2009

Imagine a cross between Bring It On, High School Musical and an Alley Cat Jam, and you’ll have a good idea of what we’re talking about.

By   |   September 23rd 2009

For our readers who do not live across the street from Vanderbilt Hall: Tap night is occuring. Loudly. Screams and shouted names abound. Good luck to our freshman friends and readers!

By   |   September 21st 2009

Mad Men Season 3 Episode 3 boasts (in addition to blackface and more pregnant drinking) an epic a cappella battle between two members of the Princeton class of 1955 while high at work.