Night Owls performance on November 6, 2025 in celebration of World Digital Preservation Day. The performance occurred in the lobby of the Vassar College Thompson Memorial Library. The theme of the event was music preservation. Many recordings of the Night Owls have been preserved and made available in the Digital Library through the Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.

"As legend has it, the Vassar Night Owls, an all-female jazz a cappella group, was founded after some students were quarantined on campus in 1942. One version of the legend contends it was a polio outbreak while another says it was rubella. And while Vassar’s official history contains no mention of a quarantine that year, the Night Owls legend goes like this: A few adventurous students, dressed all in black, snuck out of their dorms to serenade the quarantine students, and the Night Owls were born." Source: Hertz, L. (May 2020). Vassar Night Owls Lift Their Voices and Campus Spirits. Vassar College." Retrieved December 2, 2025, from https://stories.vassar.edu/2020/vassar-night-owls-lift-their-voices-and-campus-spirits.html