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Harvard Din & Tonics

The Harvard Din & Tonics (or "the Dins") are a five-part all-male jazz a cappella group from Harvard University, founded in 1979.

History

The group was founded in 1979 as a public service project of the Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performing for the university community and local charitable organizations. Their first public concert was at Yale University in November 1979, amidst the pageantry of the Harvard-Yale football game. The group performed in their first film in 1982, entitled First Affair and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Loretta Swit. Their most recent appearance was in Mona Lisa Smile, a 2003 movie starring Julia Roberts that was set at Wellesley College. The Harvard Din & Tonics celebrated their thirty-fifth anniversary with a concert at Harvard's Sanders Theater on March 30, 2014.

Origin of the Name

The name Din & Tonics is a pun on the popular drink gin and tonic, and the words din, meaning a loud noise, and tonic, a musical term meaning the first note of a musical scale. The lime green socks that the group wears are representative of the lime that is traditionally served with the gin and tonic, hence their slogan "A cappella with a twist."