YaleSlavicChorus

Welcome to The Yale Slavic Chorus YouTube channel! We sing traditional women's folk music from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Georgia. We are dedicated to musical rigor and to honoring these beautiful traditions.

Our group was founded in 1969, the first year of undergraduate coeducation at Yale. Although we were the first women's group at Yale College, we now welcome singers of all genders. While primarily an undergraduate group, the "Slavs," as we are affectionately known around campus, also include other members of the Yale community. Our singers come from a variety of cultural and academic backgrounds, and most had had very little exposure to Slavic/Balkan/Georgian music before coming to Yale; most of us do not speak the languages in which we sing.