Here we go. Last two recaps.
During the first few weeks of school, Penn’s 40 million a cappella groups had tryouts. Being a lover of singing and being a big loser, I tried out for 30 million. I managed to get callbacks to all 30 million, including Penn Masala, an all-indian group. (I also made callbacks for Penn Dhamaka, an all-indian male dancing group. Nice.) Finally after a painful two weeks, I received work that I made it into Chord on Blues, Counterparts, Off the Beat, and Pennsylvania-Six 5000. Of course, coming from a billion years of choir and of listening to college acappella, I flipped out about getting into Off the Beat and knew that was it for sure. However, after spending a week with both Penn-Six and Off the Beat, I realized how different things were from what I expected. I found myself enjoying my time at Penn-Six more and that Off the Beat, although dope, was not exactly what I wanted. So PennSix it is.
Last semester, we had our fall show which brought in about 700 people. We also had our 25th anniversary and 70+ alums actually returned for the festivities. It was pretty amazing to see all these people and actually hear them sing the songs that we listen to on old albums and meet the people behind the voices.
We had multiple gigs throughout the semester, and we went on a roadtrip to New York and Boston to sing for some rich Penn alum’s birthday.
With the birthday boy. From left to right: guy not in Penn-Six, Lix, Brock (me), Grubbs, Lechter, old man, Stan, Chex/Ward, Cletus, Lingus (on bended knee), Jiggy, Tiger Woods (Nigel).
Please note:
40 million = 12ish
30 million = 7
a billion = 11
700 = 700+
70+ = 70-
Penn-Six = worst group ever
