SING!: Back and Bigger Than Ever By: Katie Caudle

SING! is an event at Hardin-Simmons University (HSU) that promotes the College of Arts and Media during the week of homecoming. It is a one-night event on Oct. 4 this year.

Sing is an event that helps promote all aspects of visual and performative arts on campus. From vocal performances, as implied in the name, to acting, dancing and more. Sing is an opportunity for students to show off their skills and promote their clubs. 

“I am most excited to get the chance to perform with all of my friends at Sing this year,” Zen Lister, a junior music and psychology major from Shamrock, said. Lister is a part of HSU’s Concert Choir who will be doing a performance at this year's Sing. 

Greek life plays a large role in Sing as well. Part of Sing’s appeal is that it also exists as competition between all of the greek life groups on campus, as well as the freshman, who have their own group. These groups create 10 minute jukebox musicals complete with live vocals and choreography, and each group performs them throughout the duration of the show. At the end of the show, awards are given to the winning team as well as those who did especially well at certain aspects of their show. 

“We’re rehearsing every day, and everyone is having a blast,” Faith Gaines, a junior music education major and leader of the freshman competing group, said. “Often it’s difficult to get people to stay on task because we're having so much fun together.” 

Freshman Sing is a special group that helps create life long friends and gives people a chance to perform without being a part of an organization or club. While Freshman Sing was unable to perform last year, this year they are coming back to compete. 

Sing is a wonderful opportunity for clubs, greek life, freshman and all of the College of Arts and Media, to get to perform for the returning alumni and everyone else who attends homecoming week. The students who are participating are working very diligently on perfecting their acts for the show, hoping that this will only help grow a love for the arts on campus.