Columbia State Community College’s Department of Music will present its spring concert on April 27 at 1 p.m. in the Cherry Theater on the Columbia Campus.

“Please come and enjoy some great music,” said Holli Scholz, Columbia State music instructor. “We are doing a mix of music and styles, but we are for sure singing some folk songs and a few musicals. The students have grown so much in the last year, and they are excited to perform."

Columbia State Choir students and students from the music studios of Dr. Mark Lee, Dr. Darryl Miller, Christine Poythress and Scholz will come together to perform in the upcoming concert. There will be performances from the choir, private voice students, a flute student, the jazz ensemble and piano duets from both private piano lessons and the group piano class. 

A few pieces that will be performed are numbers from musicals such as “Wicked,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Newsies,” “The Sound of Music” and “The Music Man.” Folk songs such as “Aura Lee” by G. R. Poulton and “All Join Hands” arr. by E. Crocker will also be performed. 

In addition, the choir will perform many pieces such as a medley from “The Phantom of the Opera” by Andrew Lloyd Weber and a folk medley called “I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy” by R. Hunter. Musicians will include Alex Laguna, Gary Kramer, Daniel Holbrook, Tyler Cochran, Serenity Neely, Kelsey Carter, Rachel Grad, Phoebe Perkins, Luke Dodd, Lance Hein, Monica Neely, Jayden Mcfatridge, Lorrel Sood, Walker Williams, Daniel Schoenholz, Amelia Greenwald and Monica Neely. The choir will be accompanied by Dr. Darryl Miller and conducted by Holli Scholz. 

The concert is free and open to the public. The Cherry Theater is in the Waymon L. Hickman Building on the Columbia Campus, located at 1665 Hampshire Pike.