Festival of Choirs USA® is a choir competition event being held on August 18, 2012. This will be the fourth Festival. The location for the event is 807 Skinner Creek Road, Port Allegany, PA, 16743. The Festival is a free event open to the public.
The Festival is registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for: Promoting public awareness of the need to reestablish and reinvigorate the choirs that were once in small town churches.
Participating church choirs from around the region will be divided into groups according to their size. Group Sizes will be 7-11, 12-16, and 17-21. These numbers are comprised of the choir members from the church that is actually singing. If a larger group size is needed it will be considered. Each church will have a minimum of 1 soprano, 1 alto, 1 tenor and 1 bass in their choir. We will have an electronic piano at the Festival for the Choirs to use. The churches can pick a song choice between traditional hymns and contemporary Christian. Song choice must be submitted with the church’s registration by August 1, 2012. Upon receiving the churches registration and song choice, the committee will respond within a week to let them know if their song selection has been accepted. If it hasn’t the church is able to submit another song. We do this so we do not end up with different choirs singing the same song twice. On Saturday night the winners of the different categories will be announced and awarded. The last three years the Festival has been blessed to be able to give $500.00 to each separate category winner. The award amount could vary each year.
Churches that have been established for more than three years, view the Bible as authoritative and would like to enter the Festival’s competition will need to register with the Festival of Choirs USA. The churches have two ways to register.
1. Online by clicking on the “Register” tab at the top of the home page, filling out the information and then mailing a check to the Festival’s address.
2. By mailing the churches information with a check to the Festival’s address.
The registration time period will begin on June 1, 2012 and end on August 1, 2012. A registration fee of $50 will be charged to all participating churches and the fee will be returned back to them once they have competed in the Festival. Refunds of the registration fee are also available to the registered church if they can’t attend until the registration deadline which is August 1, 2012. After that date, if a church does not compete in the Festival event they will forfeit their entrance fee.
Please make time and come out to support the churches that have registered for the
Festival of Choirs USA®
Be blessed and have a great day,
Jerry J. Goochee
