History
In the fall of 1981, a small group of Yale undergraduates found themselves torn between the call of sketch comedy and the allure of a cappella singing. Unable to decide between these two competing activities, they decided to form a new group that incorporated the best elements of both. A silver-plated fruit bowl served as a makeshift tap-cup (a necessity for any official group), and thus the original class of Mixed Company was born.
Since then, we have shifted our focus away from sketch comedy and devoted ourselves more seriously to singing, although we still allow our unique brand of humor to shine through during on-campus concerts. Now in its 28th year of existence, members of Mixed Company have sung for world leaders, produced twelve studio albums, and performed for audiences on five continents.
Mixed Company of Yale, 2008-2009
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- Dave Matthews Band
- 100 Years
- Five for Fighting
- Ain't No Sunshine
- Bill Withers
- Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
- Looking Glass
- Criminal
- Fiona Apple
- Don't Let Your Heart
- The Mint Juleps
Follow Through- The Divinyls
- Ghost
- The Indigo Girls
- Hodja
- Todd Rundgren
- Honest Work
- Todd Rundgren
- How the Scenery Changes
- original composition by Kim '04+1
- Leavin's Not the Only Way to Go
- from the musical Big River
- Let's Hear It for the Boy
- from the musical Footloose
- The Luckiest
- Ben Folds
- Mandolin Moon
- Sister Hazel
- McDonald's Girl
- The Barenaked Ladies
- Mona Lisa
- Guster
- Once I Had a Sweetheart
- Traditional Appalachian folksong
- One Fine Day
- The Chiffons
- Pocketbook
- Jennifer Hudson
- Pretending to Care
- Todd Rundgren
- Ready for Love
- India.Arie
- Satellites
- Rickie Lee Jones
- Seasons of Love
- from the musical Rent
- Shadowland
- from the musical The Lion King
- So High
- John Legend
- Someone to Fall Back On
- Jason Robert Brown
- Song of Purple Summer
- from the musical Spring Awakening
- Stars and the Moon
- from the musical Songs for a New world
- Trouble Sleeping
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Two Points for Honesty
- Guster
- Walking in Memphis
- Marc Cohn
- You're All I Need (to Get By)
- Aretha Franklin
- Zombie Jamboree
- Rockapella
Dear Alumni,
If you're an alumni who's not yet on the mailing list, or if you'd like to get in touch with your fellow Gumpsters, please contact our alumni coordinator, David Martinez (david.a.martinez@yale.edu).
For more information about upcoming tours and Snow Job 2010, check out the Contact section.
The Gump '02-'03
" Zombie Jamboree: music that you'll treasure all your lives and will most certainly become one of your most precious possessions. "
— note on the first arrangement of Zombie Jamboree
Alumni News
Congratulations to Amy Justman ('00) and her successful run in the Broadway production of Company and to Ben Eakeley ('00) and his role as Beadle in the national tour of Sweeney Todd!
Congratulations to Kate Mulvihill ('01) on her new place in the Tiffany Consort, a Grammy Award-winning chamber choral ensemble. Additional congratulations to her vocal trio, Trio Eos, on making it to the finals of Early Music America's Medieval and Renaissance Competition for Emerging Artists.
Go to www.myspace.com/sivanoir to listen to Siva Noir, Lexi Newman's ('07) awesome alternative rock band. Go to iTunes to order their new album.
Check out the website of the up-and-coming Indie rock sensation, Whitney Grolig ('05), at www.whitneynichole.com.
For more alternative fare, check out Norman Kim's ('93) MySpace page for a taste of what he calls "slanty-eyed soul."
And for the music of Josh Dodes ('95) and company, visit the homepage of the Josh Dodes Band, as seen on VH1: Bands on the Run, at www.jdband.com! The band has, at various times, included Gumpsters Adam Blau ('97), Rena Desai ('97), Maiya Sykes ('00) and Krupa Desai ('01).
