About

“The Harvard Krokodiloes have the gift of warming one’s soul and enriching one’s day.” — Leonard Bernstein

The Harvard Krokodiloes, Harvard University’s oldest and most prestigious a cappella singing group, perform popular music from the 1920s through the 1960s. 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 more than 100 concerts that the group performs stateside during the school year, each summer for the past 30 years the Krokodiloes have embarked on a 10 week, 6 continent world tour. During that time the Krokodiloes have spread their musical goodwill to over 100 countries and performed for kings, presidents, princes, and ambassadors in all corners of the globe. The Kroks have also made Bermuda their Spring Break home for over 40 years, entertaining at the finest hotels and restaurants. In their almost 7 decade history, the Kroks have also recorded over 30 albums and performed in the finest concert halls across the world including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and the Sydney Opera House.

The Kroks with Anne Hathaway, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' 2010 Woman of the Year

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 five 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 in 2008 and 2010 in Carnegie’s 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.