SFA offering slate of spring events, concerts

Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches has a full calendar of spring activities coming up.

Choir concernt featuring area HS students on Friday

The SFA Men’s Choir and Women’s Choir will present a concert featuring a variety of performers, including high school choirs from Nacogdoches and Lufkin, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

“Songs My Mother Taught Me” is a collection of folk songs, game songs and hymns from around the world, according to Dr. Tod Fish, associate director of choral activities at SFA and conductor of the choirs.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth.

For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.

Concert in the Park offered

The bands at Stephen F. Austin State University will present the annual Concert in the Park Sunday, May 5, in the wooded area along Vista Drive and in front of the Wright Music Building on the SFA campus.

The concert begins at 2 p.m. and is free to the public.

Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, honorary band service fraternity and sorority, will sell hamburger plates beginning at 1 p.m.

Plates are $5 each and will include a burger, chips and beverage.

A meeting of the Lumberjack Band Alumni Association will be held in the Band Hall following the concert.

For more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.

‘I Won’t Dance’ concert scheduled May 7

The School of Music at SFA will present the program “I Won’t Dance: An Evening of Great American Song” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, in the Music Recital Hall on the SFA campus.

The program includes early 20th century popular music and will feature songs from George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and others.

The performers are sisters Kayla Roth, music theory and ear-training faculty in the School of Music, and Erin Roth Thomas, a mezzo-soprano who performs regularly in the Dallas area.

Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth.

For tickets or more information, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit www.finearts.sfasu.edu.