1Sep 27, 2024
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.
2Aug 10, 2023
Thank you to all of our generous sponsors, donors, ticket purchasers, and guest groups from the Universities of Maryland (DaCadence), […]
3Dec 28, 2021
Seasons Greetings! Welcome to our 2nd Annual Holiday Video Montage. Please watch this space for an announcement about our 30th annual Sing Out For Shelter concert, to benefit two of D.C.’s worthiest charities supporting people experiencing homelessness.
4Dec 10, 2020
For almost 30 years, the Augmented 8 has hosted “Sing Out for Shelter” to raise funds for Christ House, Friendship Place, and Metropolitan House to support the work they do for persons experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C.
5Apr 23, 2020
Scott O’Gorman, who died April 3, 2020 at the age of 87, was a beloved member of the Augmented 8. He sang with the group for over forty years from 1964 to the early 2000’s.
6Jan 7, 2020
Tickets On Sale Now!
Saturday, February 22, 2020 – 8:00 pm
28th Annual “Sing Out for Shelter”
The Augmented 8 welcomes:
The Princeton University Katzenjammers
Venus D Minor
Maret School Grace Notes
Award-Winning A Cappella Concert for the Homeless
7Jul 1, 2019
Christ House observed June 12, 2019 as the Augmented 8’s official Partner Day and displayed this certificate in their front […]
8Nov 21, 2018
For our 27th annual Sing Out for Shelter (“SOS”) concert, DC’s own Augmented 8 once again will bring together the best of contemporary a cappella singing to raise funds for organizations that assist the homeless in the metro DC area.
9Apr 24, 2017
Article by Hai Yu, George Washington University, May 2017 In 1992, D.C.-based economist and a cappella singer Bill Cline was driving […]
10Mar 7, 2017
The flu benched concert headliners, the Princeton Tigertones, leaving a potentially large gap in the anniversary program. But by divine providence, the Whiffenpoofs were between a Saturday afternoon concert in Baltimore and a Sunday concert in Alexandria amid a 29-concert,19-day tour.