Press Contact

Please direct all press and media inquiries to our business manager, Liam Richardson:

Liam Richardson
Business Manager
The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University
P.O. Box 202059
New Haven, CT 06520
tel: +1 (623) 910-1463
business@whiffenpoofs.com

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In the News

The Whiffenpoofs have been covered extensively by news outlets including the New York Times, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, The Times of London, USA Today, NBC, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and Bleacher Report.

Catching up with the Yale Whiffenpoofs, America’s oldest collegiate a cappella group (WISH TV, 3/20/24

Yale University's Whiffenpoofs perform at Louisville's Kentucky Center for the Arts (WLKY, 3/18/24)

Whiffenpoofs And SPHS Alum To Perform In Anne Arundel County (Severna Park Voice, 3/5/24)

Boca Raton Local Is Featured Singer, Emcee in Yale Whiffenpoofs (Boca Raton Tribune, 1/23/24)

The Whiffenpoofs revel in the tradition of collegiate a cappella groups, while keeping it up to date. (Monterey County Weekly, 1/11/24)

Famed Yale Whiffenpoofs performing in Denver (CBS Colorado, 1/4/24)

The Yale Whiffenpoofs are coming to TACAW (Aspen Times, 1/3/24)

The Whiffenpoofs to offer holiday concert Saturday in Southport (Westfair Business Journal, 12/7/23)

Kenyan member brings home Whiffenpoofs, world’s oldest acapella group (People Daily Kenya, 6/23/23)

Waruguru Kibuga and Yale’s famed Whiffenpoofs land in Kenya, set for epic performances (K24 TV, 6/20/23)

Britain is high note of tour for Yale’s Whiffenpoofs a cappella group (The Times, 6/9/23)

The Yale Whiffenpoofs Sing in Orange (Orange Town News, 4/6/23)

IKEA, Yale Whiffenpoofs team for Christmas concert, buffet in New Haven Friday (New Haven Register, 12/5/22)

Instant harmony: Famous a cappella singers The Yale Whiffenpoofs return to Brevard (Florida Today, 3/21/22)

Yale a capella group ‘The Whiffenpoofs’ return to the Vilar Performing Arts Center (Vail Daily, 12/31/21)

Yale Whiffenpoofs blend humor, history (Brown Daily Herald, 9/25/19)

It took 109 years, but Yale’s storied a cappella group just got its first female singer (Washington Post, 2/8/19)

A woman is joining this Yale a cappella group for the first time in more than a century (CNN, 2/22/18)

Yale's Whiffenpoofs A Cappella Group Admits First Woman (NPR, 2/21/18)

Yale’s Famed Whiffenpoofs Singing Group Admits First Woman (New York Times, 2/20/18)

Yale’s Poor Little Lambs Who Have Lost Their Way Find a Ewe (Wall Street Journal, 2/20/18)

Yale’s All-Male Glee Club Will Now Admit Women, Gender Nonconforming Singers (Cosmopolitan, 2/12/18)

Ivy League glee club ends decades old gender restrictions (NBC, 2/11/18)

Yale's Brandon Sherrod sang his way around world, now he's back in tune on court (USA Today, 3/16/16)

At Yale, Trading a Playbook for a Songbook (New York Times, 2/11/15)

Yale Basketball Player Leaving Team to Sing with Whiffenpoofs Vocal Group (Bleacher Report, 5/14/14)

Star basketball player at Yale quits the team when he made the cut for the school's prestigious Whiffenpoof a cappella group (Daily Mail, 5/13/14)

Yale basketball player quits team to join famed glee club (New York Post, 5/13/14)

The Whiffenpoofs: A whiff of a cappella (Daily Maverick, 7/18/13)

Whiffs of 'Glee': Songsters on season finale (Yale News, 5/3/13)

Newtown Arts Center Opens Today with Whiffenpoofs... (Hartford Courant, 2/14/13)

PBS Newshour (1/24/13)

Singing for their Supper (New York Times, 1/13/13)

Liz's Picks: Things To Do In Dallas (FrontBurner, 1/7/13)

36 Hours in New Haven, Connecticut (New York Times, 10/24/12)

'A Whiffenpoof, Wow!' (Magic Valley Times-News, 10/19/12)

Get a Whiff of These Guys (Morning News, 10/16/12)

The 12 Best College A Cappella Groups in the Country (Her Campus, 9/28/12)

Who Is She? Just One Of The Most Popular Songs Ever (NPR, 7/7/12)

Music review: Yale Glee Club at Strathmore (Washington Post, 2/6/11)

A Cappellooza (New York Times, 1/7/11)

Whiffenpoofs Bring a Whiff of Fresh Air to "The Sing-Off 2" (Yahoo! Music, 12/6/10)

Review: The Sing Off (US Magazine, 12/6/10)

Summoning Harmony on the Fly (New York Times, 12/3/10)

Yale Whiffenpoofs perform in Boise (KTVB, 10/18/10)

Yale Whiffenpoofs to sing in Vail Valley (Vail Daily, 12/25/09)

What's a Whiffenpoof? (Boise Weekly, 10/07/09)

Singing group pays visit to church (Montgomery Advisor, 1/6/09)

Yale University a cappella group celebrates centennial (Montgomery Advisor, 1/4/09)

Yale Whiffenpoofs turn 100 (NBC WIT 30, 1/13/09)

The Whiffenpoof Song (The Hartford Courant, 8/31/09)

At 100, Whiffenpoofs sound good as ever (New Haven Register, 1/25/09)

Yale Whiffenpoofs prepare for their Centenial Concert

After 160 Years, Fabled Yale Club Shuts Doors (NPR's Weekend Edition, 1/11/09)

Whiffenpoofs bring a cappella voices to town (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/11/09)

The Whiffenpoofs Perform for George W. Bush at White House Christmas Party (YDN, 12/18/08)

On the evening news in College Station, Texas (CBS affiliate KBTX, 4/6/2008 Issue)

Whiffs Featured in Vanity Fair (Vanity Fair, May 2008 Issue)

Perfect Tone, in a Key That's Mostly Minor (NYT, 3/23/2008)

The Great, the Unstoppable Whiffenpoofs (NBC, 3/13/2008, print and video feed)

Yale's Whiffenpoofs to appear on 'West Wing' (New Haven Register, 11/22/02)

Yale's A Capella Rush (NPR's Morning Edition, 9/26/02)

Still Singing for their Supper (Washington Post, 1/4/00)

The Great Whiffenpoof Reunion of 1999 (Yale Alumni Magazine 3/00)