About Us

Purpose: The Yale Alley Cats is a world-renowned undergraduate a-cappella group founded in 1943. Our mission is to sing wonderful music together, become better musicians through vocal performance and rehearsal, to share our music to Yale's campus and audiences across the world, and, most of all, to cultivate meaningful friendships that last a lifetime. Although initially founded as a Jazz group, our over-400-song repertoire ranges all the way from Harry Styles to Michael Jackson. As the first internationally-touring undergraduate group at Yale, The Yale Alley Cats have funded trips to Beijing, Sydney, Istanbul, and on our most recent tour, to Geneva, Doha, and Cape Town. We've had the pleasure to perform for icons such as President Barack Obama, collaborate with Grammy-winning singers and songwriters, and release several albums, with a new album coming this year! As one of Yale's oldest a-cappella groups, The Yale Alley Cats strive to uphold the strong tradition of a-cappella music that has become such a signature of Yale's student life.