Every fall, the men of Otto Tunes, Syracuse University's all-male a cappella group, take the stage for Cockappella, an annual benefit concert in support of the Testicular Cancer Foundation. What started as one night in a campus auditorium has become one of the longest-running grassroots fundraisers in TCF's history, and one we're profoundly grateful for.
It started with a group of college guys who decided that an awkward conversation was worth having. Thirteen years later, they're still having it, and they're saving lives doing it.
In November 2025, Otto Tunes hit their goal on the nose and broke their own fundraising record, capping a four-year run of consecutive growth. Every dollar goes directly to TCF's patient programs, awareness work, and survivor support.
Um pequeno grupo de estudantes universitários. Uma tradição do campus. Um capítulo importante na história da TCF.
A primeira campanha de arrecadação de fundos online do Cockapella arrecadou US$ 1.015 em 2016. Todas as campanhas desde então vêm superando as anteriores, com cada um dos últimos quatro anos batendo um novo recorde. Aqui está o total acumulado, ano a ano.
Methodology. Campaign data sourced from CauseVox (May 2026) and rounded to the nearest dollar. Bars are scaled to the largest single year ($20,065, Cockapella 2025). For consistency, every campaign is labeled "Cockapella" on this page; on CauseVox, campaigns from 2016–2021 ran under the "Otto Tunes" name, but all funded the same annual concert tradition. The 2021 row aggregates two CauseVox campaigns from that year ($5,258 + $6,168 = $11,425). The "20×" growth figure compares the first online campaign ($1,015 in 2016) to the most recent ($20,065 in 2025). The benefit concert itself has run every fall since 2013; the 2016 campaign was the first hosted on a digital fundraising platform.
Três peças que se reúnem todo outono há mais de uma década.
Syracuse University's premier all-male a cappella group, founded in 2008. Named for the school's mascot, Otto the Orange, they've competed in the ICCA, toured the East Coast, and made Cockappella the heart of every fall semester.
An annual benefit concert held during October's Testicular Cancer Awareness Month: Otto Tunes' "Cocktober." A full evening of performances by Otto Tunes plus invited guest groups, with all proceeds going to TCF.
TC is the most common cancer in men ages 15–35, exactly the age of an Otto Tunes member. The funds and the awareness raised by Cockappella reach the same demographic that needs the message most.
De um único show no campus em 2013 a uma instituição reconhecida, com cobertura da Universidade de Syracuse e do Daily Orange todos os anos.
Otto Tunes organiza o primeiro concerto da Cockappella no campus de Syracuse. A ideia é simples: um concerto beneficente a cappella para a conscientização sobre o câncer testicular, realizado durante o mês que a maioria das pessoas conhece como outubro.
A mídia local começa a cobrir a história. Em 2015, o The Tab Syracuse já a chama de “Funds for Nuts”. O Daily Orange faz uma matéria sobre o evento ano após ano. O Otto Tunes transforma um evento pontual em uma tradição anual da vida no campus.
By the 6th annual concert, Cockappella is a known quantity in the SU calendar. A new generation of Otto Tunes members inherit the show, and the cause, and keep it growing.
The 10th anniversary in 2022 is a milestone show. By the 13th in 2025, Otto Tunes pulls in $20,000 in a single night, the group's largest fundraising total ever, and a meaningful contribution to TCF's annual programs.
What Otto Tunes has built isn't just a fundraiser: it's a model. They proved that young men will show up for this conversation, when you give them a reason to. Every time they sing, somewhere in that audience is a guy who's going to check himself in the shower the next morning.
O Cockappella tem sido noticiado todos os anos pela mídia estudantil e local de Syracuse. Abaixo, uma seleção dessas matérias.
Anos de gravações de shows do Cockappella e outras apresentações da Otto Tunes.
Whether you're at Syracuse, an alum, a TC survivor, or just want to chip in, here's how.
Treze anos é muito tempo para continuar apoiando uma causa. A Fundação contra o Câncer Testicular agradece por cada show, cada dólar e cada conversa meio estranha que você ajudou a tornar um pouco mais fácil.