17thAnnual Choristers Guild Children's
Choir Festival General Information





Date: Saturday April 26, 2008
Times: Mandatory Director's Meeting and Chapter Annual Meeting at 1:30 pm.
Junior Choir (grades 3-6) Registration at 8:15 am. Line-up starts at 8:30 am.
Half Day Primary Choir (grades K-2) Registration at 12:15 pm.
Rehearsals start at 12:30 pm.
Optional Full Day Primary Choir (grades K-2) Activity Room available starting at
8:30 am. Rehearsals start at 12:30 pm.
Concert at 3:00 pm.
Location: First Presbyterian Church of Lake Wales
16 North 3rd Street
Lake Wales, FL 33853
Clinician: Kathy Evans currently serves as Director of Music Ministries at First United Methodist Church, Cookeville, Tennessee where she oversees a program of Early Childhood Music Ministry, children and youth choirs, adult choir and ensembles. Mrs. Evans has over 35 years experience as a church musician and educator having served churches in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. She has taught at the collegiate, secondary and elementary levels, maintained a private studio in piano, and taught early childhood music.

Previously she served on the faculty of the Community School of Music and the Music Department of Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, and as Director of Youth and Children’s Music Ministries, Markham Woods Presbyterian Church, Lake Mary, Florida.

She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University with a BS in Music Education and holds a Masters of Education from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
photo of clinician
Music - Primary Choir:
grades K - 2
"For Things that I Do Wrong, O Lord" and
"He Comes!"
from "Songs and Seasons" by Michael Bedford CGA 540
Music - Junior Choir:
grades 3 - 6
"Walk In The Light" –  arr. Andre Thomas CGA 1062
"Prayer Litany" – Helen Kemp CGA 747
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" –  Bach/arr. Kirby Shaw Hal Leonard 08551048
Music - Combined Choirs: "Everywhere I Go" – Natalie Sleeth CGA 171
"Teach Me Your Way" – Timothy Shaw CGA 1081
  All music must be memorized

Fees: Directors (includes lunch) $5.00 per person
3-6 grade Juniors (includes lunch and snack) $12.00 per person
K-2 grade Half Day Primaries (includes snack) $7.00 per person
K-2 grade Full Day Primaries (includes lunch and snack) $12.00 per person
Chaperones, Aides and other Adults needing lunch $5.00 per person
Registration fee
Registration fee waived if mailed by April 5, 2008
$25.00 per church
 
Registration deadline is April 19, 2008
 
Sharon Hall Memorial Scholarship Fund: Sharon Hall was a Children's Choir Director at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, a charter member of the Central Florida Chapter of Choristers Guild. After her death in 1996, the Central Florida Chapter of Choristers Guild established the Sharon Hall Scholarship Fund to honor Mrs. Hall's commitment to, enthusiam for and love of children and music. The scholarship fund will cover festival registration fees for choristers and/or directors in financial need. To request scholarship funds or for more information, please contact chapter president Bonnie Litteral (407-877-3525) or Francie Brann (407-658-8323).
Interest Groups - Juniors: Puppets
Organ
Drumming
Orff
Recorder
Sacred Dance
Drama
Handbells
Handchimes
Sign Language

Festival Information Updates:

If you plan to attend the festival please be sure Francie Brann has your current e-mail address. Click on franciefiddle@aol.com. to send this information. Also include a valid e-mail address on the Registration Form if you would like confirmation of your registration. You will receive schedules, name tags, and class assignments when you arrive on April 26, 2008.

Permission Form:

A permission form must be filled out for each chorister and turned into the festival registrar before name tags and schedules will be given out on the morning of the festival. This is to ensure safety of the children in case there is an emergency and the director cannot be immediately located. A form can be found by clicking the Permission Form Button on the bottom of this page. We also ask that each church have an emergency person at home(someone that can be called and who will contact the rest of the parents in case of an emergency).

Travel Directions to First Presbyterian Church of Lake Wales

From Orlando and North

Take Interstate 4 West to Exit 55 (Highway 27- Haines City Exit)
Take Highway 27 South for 26.2 miles (30 minutes) to Lake Wales
Shortly after the Florida's Natural citrus plant, at the intersection of Highway 27 and West Central Avenue - turn left onto West Central Avenue
Go through four traffic lights, over the train tracks, and turn left onto North Third Street
First Presbyterian Church is on the right and parking is on the left side of the street.

From Tampa and Southwest coast areas

Take Highway 60 East (approximately 50 miles) until you reach the overpass for Highway 27 (this is past the IHOP and KFC)
Take the Highway 27 exit North
As soon as you get off the exit ramp, stay in the far right hand lane and turn right onto West Central Avenue, which is the first traffic light (a Cheveron gas station is on the corner)
Go through four traffic lights, over the train tracks, and turn left onto North Third Street
First Presbyterian Church is on the right and parking is on the left side of the street.

From the East and Southeast

Take Highway 60 West from either Interstate 95 or the Florida Turnpike
Less than a mile after passing the Lake Wales Medical Center, angle right and down the ramp to get onto Highway 17
Once on Highway 17 (S. Scenic Highway) it is about 3 blocks to East Central Avenue
Turn right on East Central Avenue, go one block and make a left on North Third Street
First Presbyterian Church is on the right and parking is on the left side of the street.

Housing:

A block of rooms is reserved for Friday night, April 25, at the Hampton Inn and Suites, 22900 Highway 27, Lake Wales, Florida 33898. (863-734-3000). Rooms are $99.00 plus tax and contain either two queen size beds or one king size bed. Alternatively the Hampton Inn has suites with two queen size beds (or one king) and a pull out sofa bed that sleeps two people. The cost of the suite is $109.00 plus tax. The tax should be able to be avoided if you bring a copy of the church's tax exempt letter. Please mention the CG Choir Festival to get this rate. Breakfast is included in the room rate. The Hampton Inn and Suites is about 4.2 miles from the First Presbyterian Church with a travel time of about 10 minutes. Some less expensive hotels can be found within 15 miles of Lake Wales (Winter Haven, Haines City, Dundee).

Travel directions from the Hampton Inn and Suites to the First Presbyterian Church:

Head south on US 27 approximately 3.3 miles
Turn left on West Central Avenue
Go through four traffic lights, over the train tracks
Turn left onto North Third Street. The church is on the right and parking is on the left side of the street.

Dress for the day and the concert:

—Shorts or slacks
—Tee shirt or polo shirt (a shirt representing your choir or church is great)
—Tennis shoes with socks (please emphasize "safe" shoes for climbing on choral risers)

Primary Schedule:

Please note that the schedule for primary choir singers starts at 12:15 pm. A room with supplies for various activites for primary choristers will be available in the morning; however, each choir must have adults supervising their primaries until the start of the first rehearsal at 12:30. If you want primary choristers to be included in the lunch count please register them as "Full Day Primaries" on the Registration Form Enrollment Summary.


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