LINDSBORG — More than 800 male students from 53 Kansas schools are expected on the Bethany College campus Thursday for the annual Real Men Sing vocal workshop.
In its seventh year, the Real Men Sing workshop offers vocal clinics for young men in the fifth to 12th grades and features guest conductors from collegiate and high school music programs.
Bethany Music professor and co-chair of the department, Dr. Mark Lucas organizes the annual event. Clinicians include Greg Bontrager and Nicholas Griggs who will direct the Changed and Changing Voices Choirs. Matt Webber will direct the Unchanged Voice Choir) and Lucas will direct the High School Choir.
Students are expected to attend from Salina, Lindsborg, Hutchinson, Great Bend, Ness City, Eskridge, Chanute, Marion, Derby, Inman, Wichita, Abilene, Rose Hill, Peabody, Satanta, Bennington, Maize, Fort Scott, Marysville, Ellsworth, Haysville, Goodland, Sharon Springs, Caney, Canton, Buhler, Riley, Hill City, Prairie Village, Andover, Hoisington, Hoyt, Liberal, St. George, and Westmoreland.
As a group, the young men will sing "God Bless America" at the free concert in Presser Hall Auditorium, on the Bethany campus, on Thursday at 2:30 pm. If you are unable to attend the concert in person, you can watch on Bethany College’s Facebook (@bethanycollegeks) via Facebook Live.