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In the 1970s, four members of the Augmented 8 formed their own quartet. The Ad Hoc Committee consisted of Harmar [...]
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RSVP & Save the Date The Augmented 8 Turns 75!
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Aug 8 Co-Music Director Tom Bulleit is a big Tom Petty fan. The group has kindly indulged his appreciation with two arrangements in the last two years, “Learning to Fly” and “End of the Line”. In November of 2024, (our) Tom was privileged to be a Guest DJ on Tom Petty Radio, Sirius Xm. This is a copy of that broadcast…
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The Colgate 13 will appear at 9:45 AM on Friday, March 28th on WTTG-Fox 5; be sure to watch for a preview of their performance at SOS on Saturday night.
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The Augmented 8’s “Sing Out for Shelter” annual benefit concert will be held at 7:30 PM, Saturday, March 1, 2025 at the National United Methodist Church on 3401 Nebraska Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016.
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Dr. Robert “Rob” S. Northrup Sr., known for his lifelong devotion to improving public health both in the United States and around the world, died peacefully on July 12, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the age of 86.
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Most of us in the Augmented 8 are refugees from college a cappella, several of us from Yale (others representing Stanford, Princeton, Colgate), and several alums of the Whiffenpoofs.
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SOS 2024, our 32d annual Sing Out for Shelter concert, raised nearly $40,000 to support our constituent charities battling homelessness in the DC Metro area: Friendship Place, Christ House, and the food ministries supported by the National United Methodist Church, also our concert venue since the 1990s.
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Jack was also a natural born singer. No doubt he sang in the cradle, but the first formal singing he did was as a choir boy in church, starting at the age of 8 or so. He never stopped. After moving to Washington D.C., he joined the men’s a cappella group The Augmented Eight, and sang with them for 40 years.
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Stalwart bass and loyal alum, Lambert “Nick” Heyniger, has died. He was class of 1953 at Princeton and a Nassoon. A memorial service for him was held on June 1, 2024 at the Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY (Hudson Valley).