WADDINGTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Laurentian Singers will preview their annual Spring Break Tour, this year to San Francisco, with a pre-tour concert on March 8 at 7 p.m. at The Old Town Hall, 38 Main St.

The concert is free and open to the public and The Old Town Hall is handicapped accessible.

The Laurentian Singers, a select co-educational choir of 22 undergraduate singers, continues its 70-plus year tradition of choral excellence at St. Lawrence University.

The group has won wide acclaim since its founding in 1946, and, in addition to their many performances on campus and in the community, the ensemble has toured extensively. In recent years, they have performed in New Orleans, Trinidad and Tobago, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, France, New York, Boston, and Central Europe, singing for enthusiastic audiences and meeting with other choirs.

Their wide-ranging repertoire, drawn from the music of many styles and countries, reflects the spirit of the liberal arts experience at St. Lawrence. The Laurentian Singers includes undergraduate students who represent a wide variety of academic majors and interests.

The Singers last toured in San Francisco in 2003. They return to make musical connections with Laurentian Singers alumni in the area and to perform with the world-renowned Alexander String Quartet, who have presented yearly residencies at St. Lawrence since the 1980s.

Their eclectic program, partially chosen from Singers’ requests, includes music of Mozart (Regina Coeli), Bartok (Four Slovak Folks Songs), Lehar (Vilja from The Merry Widow), Whitacre (A Boy and A Girl), along with popular songs by Dolly Parton (Jolene and Light of a Clear Blue Morning) and Freddie Mercury (Somebody to Love).