As part of its 38th concert season, Schoharie County’s community chorus, The Depot Lane Singers, will present two concerts to usher in the spring and summer seasons.

The upcoming concerts are titled “For The Good Times.”  Performances will be presented by The Singers on Friday, May 5, at the Duanesburg Reformed Presbyterian Church, and will be repeated on Saturday evening, May 6, at Schoharie High School.

Tickets are available from choir members. Admission is $7 ahead of the concerts and $8 at the door for adults and $3 for children under 12. Both concerts will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The concerts will feature songs from past years and music that will be new to many concert-goers. Leonard Tobler will assist with percussion on several of the selections.

Tobler, from Voorheesville, and has appeared in Depot Lane concerts during the 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2015 seasons.  A retired music teacher, he is a graduate of the state universities at Albany and Potsdam. He has performed as a percussionist with the Albany, Schenectady, Utica, and Catskill symphony orchestras, as well as the New York City Opera Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.

In addition, Tobler has been a percussionist for area appearances by the Three Irish Tenors and Aretha Franklin.

The Depot Lane Singers were founded by the late Frances B. Tripp in 1979 after she retired from teaching music at Schoharie High School. The chorus is currently directed by Mitch Haverly, retired music teacher from Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School.

This spring, the chorus will be accompanied by Rhea Dawn Owens. The Depot Lane Singers are sponsored by the Schoharie Colonial Heritage Association, and a portion of concert proceeds are given to the heritage association.

This event is made possible in part with public funds provided by the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered through the Community Arts Grants Program at Greene County Council on the Arts.

Editor’s note: Robert Holt is president of the Depot Lane Singers.