Tenor I Avalon Scarola '24+1 Stephen McNulty '25 Gabby Seidel '25 Eunice Oh '26 Montana Dickerson '27 Katrin Marinova '27 Grace O'Grady '27 Tenor II Josh Ellis '25 Sam Crumlish '25 Diego Bolanos '25 Felix Gong '26 Chris Tillen '27 Emma Wilmott '28 Adriana Zhou '28 Baritone Bobby Xiao '25 Chaleb Lee '25 Adam Černy '26 Charlie Patton '27 Justin Wang '27 Hari Viswanathan '28 The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, also known as the SOBs, is an a cappella singing group from Yale University.
Founded in 1938,[1] The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus is the second longest continuously running underclassmen a cappella group in the United States.
[2] Alumni of the SOBs have gone on to be founding members of other college a cappella groups such as The Pitchforks of Duke University (Jeff Warren 1978) and The Chorallaries of MIT (David H. Bass 1975, also composer of their Engineer's Drinking Song).
It spans a variety of genres from barbershop to jazz to songs by more contemporary artists like Queen, MIKA, Radiohead, Ariana Grande, Tenacious D, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish and Michael Bublé.
Each year, the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus performs across the USA and around the world, typically wearing tuxedos or suits with custom group neckties.