Every year, the Bob Jones High School Choir hosts a fundraising event known as the Coffee and Cake Concert. The performance is meant to raise money for the choral department in general, as well as to help pay for a choir trip to Washington DC next semester.
This year, the event will take place on October 1st in the Bob Jones Auditorium. Tickets are $10. Spectators will watch the choral department perform before enjoying a reception with sweet treats and snacks for which the concert is named.
“The whole choir would do one or two songs then the rest of the concert was filled up with individual acts that were auditioned by people in choir,” relays Maura Colson, a Bob Jones alumni who graduated last year. She was a part of the choir all three years she attended.
This year, both the women’s choir and the Patriot Singers will performing two songs, songs such as “Alabama” by Edna Gockel Gussen and “Awake the Harp” by Joseph Hayden.
Despite last year’s masquerade-themed concert, the upcoming performance has no theme. This allows the soloists more diversity in song selection. Soloists like Stephanie Lepper, singing “I Whistle a Happy Tune” from the 1951 musical, The King and I, and Josiah Ernst, singing Mister Cellophane from Chicago, are taking advantage of the lack of theme.
Auditions took place on September 19th in class. The students involved in these acts are referred to as soloists, though the acts can range from solos to duets to musical theatre or acapella performances. The performances are often popular songs that would normally have no part in a traditional concert choir.
“We’re a really good group, and people should definitely come see us perform,” says Hannah Forrest, a senior and current choir member. The choir has worked very hard for the performance, but despite this, few know of the event unless they have friends in choir, and that must be remedied. Join the Choral Department next Tuesday for the Coffee and Cake Concert!
