Friday, April 22 at 7:30pm | Eastminster Presbyterian Church 3200 Trenholm Rd, Columbia, SC 29204

          FRIDAY Tickets are available online https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5417706 and at the door.

Sunday, April 24 at 4:00pm | East Cooper Baptist Church 361 Egypt Road Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

           SUNDAY Tickets are available online at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5417737 and at the door.

Two years ago, the Sandlapper Singers were preparing to perform Forrest’s Requiem for the Living when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted most aspects of our lives. Now, after two years of pandemic, racial reckoning, and disruptions throughout our lives, performing a Requiem focused on the those who have lost loved ones has more meaning than we could have anticipated. We present this concert with the combined forces of the Sandlapper Singers, Charleston Southern University Concert Singers, and a chamber orchestra. The concert and its focus on consolation for the living is the vision of Dr. Dustin Ousley, Artistic Director of the Sandlapper Singers, and Director of Choral Activities at Charleston Southern University. The Sandlapper Singers opens the concert with American spirituals that lift up the need for hope and resilience in times of adversity and the importance of supporting each other as we rebuild and recover. The Charleston Southern Concert Singers will perform a complementary set raising the voices of the next generation. The choirs join to present the emotionally engaging and lyrically stunning Forrest Requiem as the centerpiece of the concert.

Dan Forrest is a South Carolina-based, internationally-renowned composer whose “Requiem for the Living” has been presented all over the world since its premiere in 2014. A Requiem, at its core, is a prayer for rest – traditionally, for the deceased. The five movements of Dan Forrest’s “Requiem for the Living,” however, form a narrative just as much for the living, and their own struggle with pain and sorrow. The Sandlapper Singers are thrilled to share the stage with the Charleston Southern University Concert Singers and chamber orchestra accompaniment to present this glorious masterwork!

The Friday, April 22 concert will be Dr. Ousley’s final concert with the Sandlapper Singers in Columbia. At the close of the concert, we will introduce the new Artistic Director of the Sandlapper Singers who will conduct Moses Hogan’s arrangement of Abide with Me which we are making a tradition for incoming Artistic Directors.