We had a Fantastic team this year. If you would like to help with next year’s Festival please let us know. You can contact us through the leave a comment tab at the bottom of this article. It is because of people helping that makes the Festival what it is. Thanks again.

I have been receiving very good feedback from a lot of people. It has really been encouraging knowing that there is great interest in restoring the choirs back into the churches to where they once were.

There was a FANTASTIC crew that helped make the Festival happen not only before the time I got to Port Allegany, but also thereafter.

We had the opportunity to have Andrea Hough from this past seasons TV show “The Biggest Loser” as a special speaker. She was incredible and enjoyed by everyone. She even gave away two T shirts that she had from the show when they went to the U.S. Olympics with the official Olympics side arm patch.

I want to thank the churches and their congregations that entered the Festival this year. They each were judged on five different points. It was not an easy task to judge the choirs, but from what I was told it was very close.

There was about a 40% increase in attendance this year from last year. That was also very encouraging. The tent size that we used at the Festival this year was a 40’ X 100’. Next year I am looking forward to having to increase the size.

Euretta Amell had her famous Chicken and biscuit dinner meal available that was enjoyed very much.

The circulation that the Festival received through Solomon’s Word and this website was incredible! I want to personally thank Mr. Jim Jones from http://solomonswords.blogspot.com/ and Mr. Aaron Bull from Bull & Crowley Media Works  757.392.1434 for all of their encouragement and efforts that they gave to us to get the word out about the Festival.

Next year’s third annual Festival of Choirs USA® will be held on August 20, 2011 at 807 Skinner Creek Road, Port Allegany, Pa. If your church is in a radius of seventy miles of Port Allegany, Pa. and you want to enter them in next year’s choir competition please contact me in any of the ways listed below. Hope to see you next year! God bless you.

The website – www.festivalofchoirsusa.com
My email – bristolparkllc@cox.net
Address – Jerry J. Goochee
952 Copper Stone Circle
Chesapeake, Va. 23320
Phone – 757-630-1490

Barbecue 4 – 6pm
Choir competition and program after.
807 Skinner Creek Road, Port Allegany, PA 16743

Barbecue 4 – 6pm
Choir competition and program after.
807 Skinner Creek Road, Port Allegany, Pa.

Andrea is coming to the 2010 Festival this year as a guest speaker. She will be giving her testimony and talking about her experiences singing and with choirs.

The picture here of Andrea and myself was taken when she came to visit us in Virginia. We are so looking forward to everyone hearing her testimony and how God has been a vital part of her life.

Blessings,

Jerry J. Goochee

Here are pictures from 2009.

The volunteers for last year’s Festival were fantastic. Without the people that gave their time and love it would not have been possible. The Festival is what it is with all of the great help we have received.

Thank you and be blessed,Jerry Goochee