About The Harvard Krokodiloes

The Harvard Krokodiloes, Harvard University’s oldest and most prestigious a cappella singing group, perform popular music from the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. Founded at the Hasty Pudding Club in 1946, they tour the United States and the world, twelve tuxedo-clad undergraduates singing jazz, swing, ballads, and rock from America’s Golden Age.

The Krokodiloes present a polished, professional product, fine tuned in the course of performing over 200 concerts every year. In addition to the 150 or so concerts that the group performs stateside during the school year, each summer for the past twenty years the Krokodiloes have embarked on an eleven-week, six-continent world tour. During that time the Krokodiloes have spread their musical goodwill to all corners of the globe. From Australia to Brazil, from Europe to Asia, you can always find a Krokodiloe fan. The group has performed for kings, presidents, princes, and ambassadors all over the world. The Krokodiloes have also made Bermuda their Spring Break home for the last thirty years, entertaining at the finest hotels and restaurants.

Leonard Bernstein

The Kroks had a long and rewarding relationship with the late Maestro Leonard Bernstein ’39, who composed original music for the group and wrote the following: "The Harvard Krokodiloes have the gift of warming one's soul and enriching one's day. I cannot praise too highly their musicality, versatility, sense of style, and dedication to excellence."

Carnegie Hall

The Krokodiloes have appeared four times at Carnegie Hall: to a sold-out audience in a 1989 concert to benefit world hunger, in a 1995 American Red Cross benefit, in a 1998 benefit concert for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and most recently on March 9, 2008, in Carnegie’s new Zankel Hall with the Yale Whiffenpoofs and the Princeton Tigertones.

Kroks and local sporting events

The Kroks enjoy small and large audiences alike. Among the larger concerts have been several opening-day pregame shows for the Boston Red Sox and a performance of the National Anthem for An Evening with Champions, the annual figure-skating exhibition that benefits the Jimmy Fund of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

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