Vocal Pops Concert Prepares To Bring In Crowd

By Hannah Roethler/Staff Writer

The choir students will be hosting their annual Vocal Pops Concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, at .

Pops concerts are unlike any other concert throughout the year because students perform songs that most everyone either knows or has at least heard of.

“The students, along with myself and Mr. Healey, the UNI student teacher, have been working extremely hard over the past few months preparing music,” director Eliott Kranz said.

Preparing for a concert that brings in a larger audience than most other concerts and can take a lot of time.

Senior Brittany Beck said, “I’ve put in about three hours of work a day in and out of school. I have a group solo this year, and we are doing choreography, so the bar has definitely been raised.”

Not only will the three choirs be showing off their hard work, but there will also be solo and group solo acts during the show.

“All of the solo acts the students selected on their own, prepared on their own and then had to audition to be selected to perform on the show,” Kranz said.

“Last year the pops concert went very smoothly, so hopefully this year is just as good,” senior Parker Smith said.

With the same expectations as last year, a lot of hard work has been poured into getting this concert ready. “We work all through class, going over and over our lines. It’s a lot of work, but hopefully it’ll show in time for the concert,” sophomore Briley Duggan said.

With hopes a lot of people come and support the choir, junior McKenzie Sesterhenn said, “This year’s concert will be amazing because it will be a lot shorter than last year. There is a possible chance that everyone who comes will get a Scratch cupcake.”