Yale Groups to Sing in Chappaqua

The 2018-19 New Blue will join the Spizzwinks for a concert in Chappaqua, Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 pm at Seven Bridges Middle School (New Blue photo)

Two Yale a cappella groups will perform in concert in Chappaqua, Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 pm. YWAA and Horace Greeley High School will host the performance. Yale alumni, guests and friends are invited to attend.

The Yale singers will be joined by two a cappella groups from Horace Greeley, the Enchords and the Quaker Notes. Tickets ($5 for students and $10 for adults) will be sold at the door.

The concert will be held in Chappaqua at Seven Bridges Middle School (222 Seven Bridges Road). (For more about tickets, contact Tom Witmer at thwitmer@ccsd.ws or Priya Ma at prma@ccsd.ws.)

Scarsdale native Laura Clapp '21 and Bedford native Anna-Sophia Boguraev '20 return home to sing for the New Blue, which turns 50 this year. Allie Larocco '21 of Cold Spring and Alice Tao '20 of Tappan also sing in the group.

The New Blue, Yale's oldest all-female group, was formed in the fall of 1969, when Yale opened its doors to women undergraduates for the first time. It released its first studio album in 1970.

Boasting as being the oldest undergraduate a cappella group in the country, the Spizzwinks were formed in 1914. They return to Westchester after concerts in 2013 and 2015. The group plans concerts in Iceland, Seattle and China this spring and summer. 

YWAA board members Dan Leonard '76, Regina Possavino '01 and B.K. Munguia '75, all Yale alumni music performers, are Yale coordinators for the event.

The Yale Spizzwinks sang at a YWAA-sponsored concert in Scarsdale in 2015 (above). The 2018-19 group will perform in Chappaqua, Feb. 3, before touring Iceland and Seattle this spring.