ABOUT US
Out of the Blue is Oxford's internationally acclaimed a cappella group, and the top a cappella group in the UK by number of championships. You may have seen us from our viral video hits, which have received over 17 million views on YouTube! Comprising students from Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University, Out of the Blue has performed on the West End and on Broadway, reached the semifinals of Britain's Got Talent, and toured around the world to places including Switzerland, Canada, India, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Helen & Douglas House hospice improves the lives of local terminally ill children and their families living in Oxfordshire and the surrounding counties. They are the world’s first children’s hospice and they provide individualised respite and end-of-life care at their hospice in Oxford as well as end-of-life care at home and in hospital. Their amazing care makes it possible for families to create happy memories which will last forever. They are a local charity and need to raise over £3.8m each year and they cannot do that without your help.
Out of the Blue have proudly supported the charity for the last fifteen years, donating all of our annual profits to them after costs, and regularly visiting the hospice during term time to sing to the families and staff. The support provided there is astonishing and the optimistic tirelessness of all the staff leaves us in awe after every visit. It's a wonderful place and it holds a special place in all our hearts.
Bookings
We have experience performing in intimate group settings, for stadiums of thousands, and with everything in between! In the past, we performed on Broadway, opened for One Direction and for Weird Al in Montreal, and put on the highest grossing non-professional show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe—the largest arts festival in the world. We are one of the UK's few groups to own a live sound system, allowing for large-scale outdoor concerts.
We also love sharing our music with students and adults alike by conducting workshops around the world. We invite participants to join in on our physical, breathing, and vocal warm-ups, conduct a beatboxing tutorial, and then teach them the music and choreography to one of our own songs. On days when we also have a concert that evening, we offer participants the chance to exercise those performance skills by inviting them onstage to perform the song with us!
Please write to our President, Angus, if you'd like to book us for your event, or for workshops.