Yardfest
Five Questions You've Got About Jessie J, Answered
You’ve probably already heard by now, but Jessie J will be headlining Yardfest 2015! We’ve got you covered with a study guide incase you need to brush up on her music, but still have more questions about her?
Study Guide: Jessie J's Music
So if you’re one of those people who knows her as “the one in that song with Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj,” here’s a quick study guide to help prep you for #Yardfest2015.
Jessie J To Headline Yardfest During Visitas Weekend
British pop artist Jessie J will headline this year’s Yardfest, the College’s outdoor music concert scheduled for April 24, the Friday of Visitas weekend.
FM Imagines: Ye Olde Yardefeste, 1873
It’s a semester and a half into your freshman year at Harvard: You’ve given up on three start-ups, stopped going to the gym, and come to the realization that this school has enough sausage to stimulate Upton Sinclair’s journalistic appetite. But Upton Sinclair hasn’t been born yet and the absence of females in your life isn’t the product of spitting bad game or being denied into the Fly.
Yardfest 2014
Semi-Serious and Hot Breakfast opened for this year's headliner, Janelle Monae, at Yardfest 2014.
Janelle Monáe Receives Award
Janelle Monáe, who performed at Yardfest this past weekend, receives The Women’s Center’s Award for Achievement in Arts and Media 2014. At the award ceremony she spoke about different questions of identity, including sex, gender, and sexuality, in her performances.
Janelle Monáe Honored as Artist and Advocate
The Harvard College Women's Center and the Black Men's Forum recognized the Yardfest headliner in separate ceremonies on Monday.
Janelle Monáe Receives Award
Janelle Monáe, who performed at Yardfest this past weekend, receives The Women’s Center’s Award for Achievement in Arts and Media 2014. At the award ceremony she discuses about different questions of identity, including sex, gender, and sexuality, in her performances with Alexis Wilkinson ('15) and Jasmine Fernandez ('16).
Yardfest 2014
Pranav Krishnan ‘16, a member of”Hot Breakfast”, sings along to The Killer’s Mr. Brightside at Yardfest organized by the College Events Board at the Tercentenary Theater on Sunday evening.
Yardfest 2014
Students cheer on the band “Hot Breakfast,” who opened for Janelle Monae on Sunday night at the Tercentenary Theater.
Announcing the Flyby Instagram!
Embracing all social media options of the twenty-first century, we will now be posting photos to our newly created Flyby Instagram account! Follow us at @crimsonflyby for real time photo updates of Harvard happenings. Stay plugged in to campus scenes, events, and people on the go with everyone’s favorite app.
Students Praise Monáe’s Yardfest Performance
Monáe’s headlining performance addressed diversity at Harvard and elicited praise, particularly in the wake of last year’s controversial artist selection.
Overheard at Yardfest: Party Animals, Tigger, and Heteronormative Selfies
A few gems from an evening of riotous revelry.
Five Songs To Know for Yardfest
Here are five Janelle Monáe songs to know before you see her at Yardfest.
#Beef for Hot Breakfast
Flyby sat down to catch up with Hot Breakfast after their recent Battle of the Bands Victory. We touched base with Mike Senter-Zapata ‘14, Paul Castrigano ‘14, Pranav Krishanan ‘16, and Sam Berman Cooper ‘14 about how they’re feeling about their Yardfest performance on Sunday. Not present for the interview was drummer Mateus Falci ‘14.
Yardfest Opener Semi-Serious Wants You to Know That They Do Not Run a Drug Cartel
"It’s really cool for us, though, when people know the words to our songs. It’s a cool thing to write an original song and see your friends make out to that song."
Monae shirt
The Harvard Concert Commission and the College Events Board will be giving away shirts with this design during Yardfest!
Yardfest Tips & Tricks!
Homework can wait and the latest episode of Game of Thrones will always be on HBO GO, but YOYO—You Only Yardfest Once (or four times, but you get the idea). For those who are unsure how to get the best out of that Sunday, here are some tips!