TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) – Groups throughout the University of Toledo performed at this years “SongFest”. For the 85th year sororities, fraternities and clubs on campus performed original dances and sang popular songs. This years theme was “Rocket Replay” as groups had to sing popular songs from the early 2000s.
The event is put on by the Blue Key and Mortar Board honors societies to raise money for certain groups. This year all of the money raised will go to the Toledo Public Schools Foundation.
Though for a good cause, the groups tell 13abc, they take the event very seriously.
Autumn Knierim, has taken part in SongFest for all four years she’s been at the university. This year she co-directed for the campus’ H2O group.
“We started practicing in January where we started just listening to our songs to get familiar with them,” she said. “Then we slowly added in dance after dance and then we added our band which has been fantastic.”
Carter Wheaton Rodriguez, joined his fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon, at the beginning of the semester. He says he did not realize how much work went into the production.
“We’ve been putting in now three hours in every single day for five days a week,” he said.
Junior, Carson Reno, says his fraternity, Pi Kappa Phi, always tries to do the best at the event, so they start practicing as soon as they can, as much as they can.
“Practice. We personally had practiced three times a week for almost four months straight.”
The main goal is to raise $30,000 dollars for the foundation. Groups held in-person fundraisers and created an online donation page for the event.
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