The world-famous Yale Spizzwinks – the world’s oldest underclassman a cappella group – have added an additional date to their world tour to perform in St Edmund’s College, Cambridge!
Now in their 111th season, the ‘Winks are producing another album and touring the US, China, Norway, the UK, and the Netherlands.
At 12:00 noon on 22 May they will perform in St Edmund’s College Chapel.
All are welcome; this event is free to attend.
You can hear a selection of their past performances on YouTube.
The Yale Spizzwinks(?) are the oldest undergraduate a cappella group in the world, now in their 111th season. The gender-inclusive group is composed entirely of full time Yale undergraduate students who perform concerts all over the world during the four academic recesses. Since their founding in 1914, the Spizzwinks(?) have released several dozen albums and performed around the globe, bringing their diverse repertoire of over 600 arrangements to venues large and small.
Domestic concert highlights include performances at the United States Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall, and for Lady Gaga at Yale’s Emotion Revolution summit. Internationally, the Spizzwinks(?) have sung for John Kerry in Beijing at the Forbidden City Concert Hall, at China’s National Arts Library, for the bicentennial celebration of US-Chile relations in Santiago, at historic churches in Istanbul and Ecuador, and with the Cape Town youth choir.
The Yale Spizzwinks(?) began when four young men met at Mory’s Temple Bar, Yale’s historic tavern, to create a light-hearted alternative to the more serious Whiffenpoofs (composed solely of Yale College seniors). They decided upon the “Spizzwinks,” a reference to a mythical creature to which the Corn Blight of 1906 had been whimsically attributed. Because the editor of the Yale Banner was unsure how to spell the fledgling group’s name, he added a question mark in parentheses to the headline announcing its foundation and their questionable punctuation remains to this day.
