Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia spreads love through song

Version of story originally published in the Western Carolinian.

WCU’s Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (PMA) will perform commissioned serenades on Tuesday, Feb. 14 on campus for significant others or anyone you want to impress or embarrass.  

Valentine’s Day serenades is an annual fundraiser where students can purchase a serenade for their significant other, a friend or a professor. The fraternity’s choir will show up and perform, “A Serenade to a Girl.” The group will deliver roses for $3, sing the serenade for $5 and $8 for both. 

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in concert. Photo by Logan King.

“I love making someone’s day through using musical performance, and the serenade fundraiser is something I look forward to every year,” said PMA song director, Andrew Brown.  

Payments can be made through PMA’s Instagram, phimualpha_oe, using Venmo, Pay Pal, Cash App. PMA will be in the first-floor hall of Coulter a few days before the event to accept cash.  

The Valentine’s Day fundraiser proceeds will go to the Camden Cohick’s Love of Music Scholarship. The scholarship is for Camden Cohick, a PMA brother who died by suicide on March 19, 2021.

PMA holds many annual events like the Men’s Mental Health concert, American Music Recital (AMR) and the Mills Music Mission.  

For updates on the Valentine’s Day fundraiser and other future events, follow PMA on Instagram.