Parents' Weekend (October 17th-19th); Gig at BC

Ah, Parent's Weekend. We started it off with a trip over to BC for an awesome show with the Bostonians, a fellow co-ed group. Other notable guests at the show were BC Dynamics, MIT Resonance, and the BU Dear Abbeys. Each group had awesome performances whether hilarious, awe inspiring, or just damn impressive. One of my favorite performances was the jagged solo delivered by a Resonance member in their rendition of "Home" originally performed by Marc Broussard. After this show with one of the more energetic audiences in a while, we headed on to the real purpose of college gigging... the party. All five a cappella groups crammed into one of the infamous mods of BC campus. After a ridiculously large inter-group game of cups and ping pong balls, dance party, and shmoozing for a couple of hours, the fun came to an end and we called it a night. Despite the awkwardness of so many strangers in one room, it panned out to be a good time. It's always a culture shock heading from Tufts to BC campus, I'm always like wow, I can't believe there are so many attractive people on one campus.

The next day we had more parental funnnn with a short little performance at Parent's day festival on the sofia gordon steps. The real fun came at the wine and cheese party we always host for the Mates, some alums, and parents. This year it was held at Gabbi's shnazzy place and... oh man... was the wine a-flowin. After stuffing our faces and in the words of Jason, getting "to meet everyone else's parents and go, 'oh, that explains it.'" And let me tell ya, there were a buncha those. I dont want to name any names (alex green). We started our private performance for our biggest fans. Afterward, parents moved it on out and we rounded out our parents weekend stocking up on the leftover wine-- or maybe that was just me... either way! Parents weekend really is great, we get to show our parents what we've been doing with all of our time and they get to see us after the droves of unreturned phone calls. typical college. Then we get to see them all kvell like mad like its our first recital, its cute.

--Alex Rodman, current group A'10

THEY'RE REALLY HERE; Retreat

So, I'm sitting on a couch right now, surrounded by the rest of the Mates, in an undisclosed location (ok, Killington) in Vermont, and We've just woken up after a well-deserved and much-needed night of sleep after much revelry. The place we're staying, Killington Kastle, is a huge ski lodge made for multi-family of large-group ski trips in the winter, and we managed to find the place for almost a quarter of the price of what it would normally be during the ski season. This place is a-freakin'-mazing - we have beds for everyone, a hot tub, a sauna, and a huge fireplace. This is shaping up to be an awesome Retreat, but in more important news...

WE HAVE PRIME!!!!

We are so pumped about this album. We popped the CD into the van on the way up here, and other than a few moments where we actually overloaded the speakers' bass response (thanks, Ian!), the album kicked our collective asses pretty uniformly into next week. We can't wait to see everyone at the Release show, which is, finally, at 9:30 PM THIS FRIDAY at the Remis Sculpture Court in the Aidekman Arts Building on the Tufts Campus. BE THERE!

--Alex Green, Publicity Manager, Current Group A'10