Skyridge High School choirs presented a patriotic program on Oct. 6 to honor veterans as part of their 250th American Celebration Concert: Honoring Those Who Serve and Sharing the Music We Love, according to a Lehi Free Press report.
The event invited friends and family members who are veterans or currently serving in the military to attend. Honored guests were presented with patriotic lapel pins, while other audience members and performers wore red, white, and blue patriotic ribbons.
The program was organized by choir director Kirsten Richards and featured accompanist Camille Brady. Narrators Liv Bean and Zach Fuller provided historical background for the musical selections.
The Bell Choir opened the evening with My Country tis of Thee, the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts, and John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever. The Men's Choir followed with Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land, featuring soloists Lochlan Newell, Vance Hunter, William Morril, Silas Harris, Jack Smith, Kyle Walton, Eli Gooch, and Christopher Morrise. The group also performed Take Me Home, Country Roads and Im a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
The Women's Choir performed America the Beautiful, Home on the Range, and Will the Circle Be Unbroken. The Concert Choir sang When the Saints Go Marching In and This is My Country, followed by God Bless the USA with soloists Matthew Stott, Conor Orsak, Zoe Tanner, Mary Kate Gardner, Emma Pritchett, and Marian Stoddard. The group concluded their set with Let Freedom Ring.
The Skyridge Singers opened their segment with My Lord What a Mornin, featuring soloists Elena Sperry, Aria VanHorn, and Max Robertson. They also performed A Poor Wayfaring Stranger with soloist Aidan Layman and God Bless America.
The performance concluded with all choirs assembled on stage. Mary Fuller played Taps on the trumpet, followed by renditions of the five uniformed service anthems. The program ended with the singing of The Star Spangled Banner and the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
