Flowers for Algernon

• Thursday, March 18, at 1:30 p.m.

• Friday, March 19, at 7:00 p.m.

• Saturday, March 20, at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets now available!
In Advance: $5 adults/$3 students
At the Door: $7 adults/$5 students

All performances will be held in the SFCS Activity Center. Call 864-678-5107 for further information.

--Article Date: March 8, 2010

SFCS 6th Grade student Natalie Vest will be performing the National Anthem at Atlanta's Philips Arena to open the Atlanta Thrashers NHL hockey game on Saturday, March 20. The game begins at 7:00 p.m. This is not the first time Vest has shared her vocal talents with area-sized crowds. She has performed at two Atlanta Hawks NBA games before a crowd of 21,000 people. Vest also sung the National Anthem at the Clemson Tigers basketball home opener at Littlejohn Coliseum. If you are interested in traveling to Atlanta to see Natalie perform, discounted tickets are available. You may call Lauren Adee at 404-878-3560 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

Fifteen members of the Shannon Forest Christian School (SFCS) High School Choir recently participated in the SCMEA Upper Region Choir Festival on Thursday and Friday, January 21-22. The festival was hosted by Southern Wesleyan University (SWU) in Central, South Carolina, and the choir was under the direction of Dr. Don Campbell of the SWU music faculty. SFCS students joined with approximately 200 other students from 12 local schools for approximately nine hours of rehearsal, culminating in a concert at the Newton-Hobson Fine Arts Center on the SWU campus. The program featured a variety of music from different style periods, including Over the Rainbow, Song for the Unsung Hero, Mozart's Lacrymosa, In Time of Silver Rain, Witness, and Praise His Holy Name.

"Participation in this festival is an important component in the musical growth of our choir," said SFCS Choir Director Amanda Gunter. "The experience of learning harder music, singing under the direction of a college level choral director, and being in a 200-voice choir, cannot be duplicated here at school." "It helps our students see what they are capable of accomplishing when they focus on the music and work hard," added Gunter.

The concert on Friday was open to the public and was attended by several parents from SFCS, including Mike and Dolores Bolton, Tommy and Andrea Culpepper, and David and Annalies Galletta. Mrs. Gunter's parents, Dewitt and Jessie Dyar, who live in Central, were also at the concert.