The Dartmouth Aires
| The Dartmouth Aires | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Genres | Collegiate a cappella |
| Years active | 1946–present |
| Website | www |
| Members |
Manny "Pyro" Howze-Warkie '18 Olafur "Vigo" Olafsson '18 Connor "Axo" Regan '18 Owen "Dasho" Stoddard '18 Jarrett "Lenno" Taylor '18 Solomon "Servo" Bang '19 Trevor "Krypto" Dorman '19 Michael "Geno" Harteveldt '19 Jebreel "Aiko" Samples '19 Rio "Novo" Wakamatsu '19 Noah "Eko" Drazen '20 Zac "Oso" Gottschall '20 Alex "Zorpo" Miller '20 Eni "Cayo" Oyeleye '20 Edward "Nado" Allen '21 Mac "Turbo" Galinson '21 Jeffers "Zumo" Insley '21 Edward "Drako" Lu '21 Henry "Palo" Phipps '21 Musical Director: Rio "Novo" Wakamatsu '19 Business Manager: Michael "Geno" Harteveldt '19 Alumni Chair: Mac "Turbo" Galinson '21 |
The Dartmouth Aires is a collegiate a cappella group from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The group came in second place in the third season of the NBC musical competition The Sing-Off, losing to international a cappella sensations Pentatonix.
Dartmouth College's oldest a cappella singing group, the Aires were originally formed as the Injunaires in 1946 as an offshoot of the college Glee Club; the Dartmouth Aires broke with the Glee Club in the late 1970s.
Although the Aires usually have about eighteen members, group numbers vary on a term-to-term basis. Auditions are held at the beginning of every fall term. Members of the Aires pick what songs to arrange based on the group's tastes. Because the Aires are such a diverse group of people, they end up singing a lot of different styles. Currently, much of their repertoire consists of popular songs from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, but it also includes many traditional Dartmouth songs, a few 1950s and 1960s tunes, selected hip hop tracks, and the occasional musical theater piece.
Most of the arrangements consist of a soloist, a dozen or so people singing background, and a vocal percussionist. The background of arrangements consists of a series of complex "instrument-like" syllables that, when sung together, resemble the background of the original song.
The Aires perform an average of two or three times a term at Dartmouth. They frequently take weekend road-trips, singing and reveling at other colleges, performing for high school music festivals, and entertaining at Dartmouth alumni clubs. Every winter break, the Aires tour the Eastern Seaboard, while traveling further afield every spring. Recent spring tours have taken them to Aruba, Costa Rica, Paris, Italy, Colorado, a few of the Hawaiian Islands, Florida, California, and Hong Kong.
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