If you’d thought you’d stepped back in time to the ’70s—or, OK, maybe the ’80s—at Schoharie Central School Tuesday, you weren’t wrong.
In a send-off celebration for 20 High School choir members, the community gathered for music, hot dogs and hamburgers, bubbles, and more before the kids loaded the bus, SPAC-bound, to open for rockers Foreigner, now traveling the country on a farewell tour.
SCS vocal teacher Carrie Styles said Foreigner put out a contest through B95.5, inviting school choirs to submit an audition video.
Community members cast their vote to pick the winners, she said, and SCS was one of two groups selected to perform onstage Tuesday with a 3-5 minute set of classic rock tunes.
Because they were limited to 20 students, SCS’s select ensemble, the Leading Tunes, was chosen to perform, but Cobleskill Stone’s Community Action Foundation picked up the tab so the rest of the high school choir students could attend as well as the cost of supplies for the coordinating tie-dyed t-shirts.
“We celebrate sports. We wanted to celebrate the arts too,” Ms. Styles said. “We also wanted to thank the community. This seemed like a perfect way.”

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