This post is about two weeks late, but it’s been a while since I updated and I wanted to write about the AMAZING time that I had singing with Reverse Osmosis on our Spring Break tour.

The last time RO did a tour was long before I was in the group, so it was wonderful to be able to take our music on the road before I graduate from the group. Our very first stop was Southampton, where we stayed two nights at the home of one of our members, Haley Willis. We sang for a private party in Southampton before catching a train over to Hofstra University, on the other side of Long Island.

For me, the highlight of the tour was the chance to meet and sing with other college a cappella groups – and party all night after our concerts, of course. The first of these instances was our concert with Hofstra’s co-ed group Sigma’cappella. It was almost creepy the way our two groups bonded so quickly — looking around it seemed as if anyone from Sigma’cappella could just as easily have ended up in RO if they had gone to USC, and vice versa.

After our amazing time with Sigma’cappella, we trekked over to Manhattan Island, where we spent an afternoon performing around the city. The highlight of that afternoon was when we picked a spot on a sidewalk in Times Square and just started singing. By halfway through Disturbia, we had drawn a crowd of about 125. Pretty sick.

We also visited Washington, DC during our tour, where we sang with two Georgetown University a cappella groups, the Capitol G’s and the Gracenotes. This concert was equally successful. Tour ended with an afternoon in DC, most of which was spent wandering the National Mall – and if you were with me at any point that afternoon, I forced you to sing barbershop tags with me.

We’re about a month out from our Senior Sendoff concert and working hard to learn all our new arrangements for that. This weekend and next, I’m also playing in the pit for Into the Woods at USC. Into the Woods is a musical I have always adored – I think Sondheim is a genius of our time in a class of his own – and it’s wonderful to be in the pit and able to hear all the glorious music of this show in greater detail than I ever have before.