This year, some students will celebrate Blue-White weekend with a tradition older than the football team and even older than the Penn State Blue Band.

The Penn State Glee Club will wrap up its spring semester at 8 p.m. Saturday with an eclectic performance of music and Penn State pride.

Following the Blue-White game, the all-male singing group is scheduled to perform in Schwab auditorium, singing a diverse blend of American folk music, sacred music and African-American spiritual songs, a Penn State football medley, the Alma Mater and Penn State fight songs.

"It's a real broad spectrum of music," Glee Club director Bruce Trinkley said. "Our audiences are friends, students, family, alumni -- so especially for the Blue-White concert, we want to do a diverse concert that will appeal to a broad audience."

Trinkley said the group will perform songs from the Glee Club's spring tour in France and songs audiences have enjoyed from club performances in the past.

"It's nice for us to be able to participate in some Penn State pride after the scrimmage," Trinkley said. "Anyone who comes to a concert really enjoys the show, and we pay attention to what the audiences like to hear and what the group likes to sing."

Tim Kreuter (freshman-education) is a member of the Glee Club. He said he feels the variety of the group and the performances makes the Glee Club an appealing organization.

"It's really interesting that there are a lot of different people in the group," Kreuter said. "We all have varied majors and varied personal beliefs and preferences, but somehow, we all seem to just stick together very well. I think it's because we always have this one common goal of performing really good music."

The concert will not only feature work by the entire Glee Club, but it also will showcase several smaller groups within the club.

Kreuter said he thinks the Glee Club performances are an important part of Penn State and an enjoyable tradition for many.

"The Glee Club is very appealing to a lot of people," Kreuter said. "It's very eclectic, so if they have a variety of musical tastes or if they have a lot of school spirit, it's one of the oldest performing groups on campus. We are a really great part of Penn State history."

Steven Silver (sophomore-meteorology), a Glee Club member, said he agrees that this weekend's performance offers "something for everyone" with the club's strong history, wide range of music and a lot of fun.

"We've really been around forever," Silver said. "We're kind of a tradition at Penn State, so we like to do a wide variety of music for all our audiences. But most importantly, we have a lot of fun singing in Glee Club, and I think that really helps our performances -- we want to be there and we have fun. That reflects in what we do."

The Penn State Glee Club celebrated its 115th anniversary in the fall of 2003.

Because ouf this long history, Trinkley said he thinks the Glee Club is a historically important but "well-kept secret" at Penn State.

"There was a Glee Club here before there was a Blue Band," Trinkley said. "The Glee Club is like the Creamery or the sports museum. It's really an institution here.

"If you don't see a Glee Club performance, you're missing part of the Penn State experience," he added.