While the battle for Yahoo continues unresolved, some Microsoft employees are breaking the suspense (or is it now boredom) by winning new awards for Redmond.
The Baudboys is an a capella group consisting entirely of Microsoft employees and is billed as Microsoft’s Finest A Capella. The group: Graham Sheldon, Ric Lewis, Owen Braun, Elliot Lewis, Dave McEwen, Jon Schwartz, Mark Adolph and Paul Eng, “risks the rath of fellow employees by rehersing in on-campus conference rooms,” and sing a variety of popular and original music.
Casual singing isn’t new in tech, but these guys are serious, having taken first place in the Harmony Sweepstakes Northwest Regional and qualifying to go through to the national final.
The group regularly performs at Microsoft’s Redmond Campus, and was even spotted earlier today at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley offices. You can hear more of the group on their MySpace page here.
(via Frankarr)
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If you’ve never heard the Baudboys before, they’re really awesome. Highly recommended.
Leonard
Here is another video and article from the Seattle PI
http://blog.sea...ives/137895.asp
I work with Ric one of the singers, they are hilariously good!
This is a great example of why I moved to silicon valley from LA. In LA, I’d find myself at film launch parties surrounded by crew, cast and other vips. But in the valley, I get to hang out with coders all day who sometimes kick it into high gear and show off some major guitar hero and other extreme gaming skills.
How can you beat that? And if I work hard enough, some day I might get invited to a TechCrunch meetup and find myself socializing with the coolest of the cool. This really is the life…
Who cares about this P-O-S?
Very nice! I like A Capella and have a bit of a collection myself.
See, not all of Microsoft is evil and participate in hostile takeovers like Ballmer and the executive staff. A cappella is awesome, here’s some more: http://tinyurl.com/22oyjl
Finally, something good from MS!! About bloody time too
On Aeroplane, the soloist was pretty sharp compared to the background, which made it sound rather grating to me. He was also really nasal… Didn’t really like the arrangement either, but that song might just be hard to pull off with so few people. Choreography was entertaining, though, and the backgrounds sounded pretty tight.
The other songs sounded pretty good and were definitely entertaining.
You should check out my radio stations, the oldest all-a cappella ones out there…
http://AcappellaAlways.com