Shades of Yale
SATB
Shades is a co-educational a cappella group founded to celebrate music of the African Diaspora. It is our objective to offer a unique, musically excellent, and spiritually enriching performance experience at Yale University and beyond. Drawing from the diverse backgrounds of our members and the oral traditions of Blacks in America, we strive to authentically portray the true depth and complexity of the Black experience. In addition to mastering our style of music, we develop an appreciation of its history and roots in order to educate audiences about our music’s lineage.
We acknowledge and accept that we are endowed with both the responsibility and the privilege of giving a voice to the voiceless, and we aim to do so through the richness of our repertoire with its power to inspire and unite us and our audiences.