Society of Orpheus & Bacchus
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Founded in 1938 at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut, the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus is the second oldest continuously running undergraduate A Cappella group in the country. The group tours the country and world at least twice a year, and every Tuesday performs at Mory's Temple Bar to guests. Vocal arrangements are made by group members and range from jazz songs and national anthems, to the Beatles and Grateful Dead. Shows are designed to fit audience, which can range from professional sports arenas to exclusive private parties, five-star resorts to the White House, from national television and the finest resturants in the world, to house parties on college campuses. Shows typically involve humorous skits and jokes as well as song. The group prides itself on its unique and often debauched humor, spontaniety, flexiblity, loyalty, and judicious consumption of alcaholic beverages. The name is related to the groups founding (...) and honors the Greek God of drink, Bacchus, and the finest musician among mortals, Orpheus, the son of Apollo.
