The Night Owls (also known as the "Owls") are the oldest continuous all-female a cappella group in the United States and are Vassar College's oldest a cappella group. The Night Owls are an all-female jazz a cappella group that performs a range of music from jazz standards to current pop hits to indie-folk music.
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History
The Night Owls always perform dressed in all-black to respect the tradition of the group's founding. In the midst of the polio epidemic of 1942, sixteen intrepid female students escaped from their quarantined dorms late one night and snuck into the library basement. There they sang and serenaded sick classmates with their dulcet tones.
Performance History
The group performs many times throughout Vassar's academic year including at final concerts in December and May, local fundraisers, joint concerts with other Vassar and non-Vassar a cappella groups, and Vassar events. More information about gigs can be found on their website and Facebook page.
Discography
Current Members
Past Members Include
Current Arrangements (Covers)
- All About That Bass, Meghan Trainor
- Back to Black, Amy Winehouse
- Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
- Beyond the Sea
- Billy-A-Dick
- Blue Tears
- Bring on the Men
- A Case of You Joni Mitchell
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- Dream A Little Dream of Me
- Helplessly Hoping
- Hotel Song
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- I Need a Man to Love
- Kiss on My List
- Landslide
- Lonesome Road
- Love Will Keep Us Together
- McDonald Boy
- Moon River
- Moondance
- Night and Day
- Plain Gold Ring Kimbra
- Rolling in the Deep Adele
- Saving Ourselves for Yale
- See Saw
- Sexy Silk
- Skyfall Adele
- Tell Him
- That Lonesome Road
- Tracks of My Tears
- Trickle, Trickle
- Unchain My Heart
- Up The Ladder to the Roof
- You Don't Own Me