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it's so beautiful it's time to celebrate
spring with a little bit of music the
Roanoke Valley Children's Choir has been
bringing beautiful music to the Roanoke
Valley and beyond for more than 30 years
and here to tell us more about the
exciting things to come this season we
have their director Kim Davidson thanks
so much for coming on thank you I'm
really glad to be here so let's hear
about the program tell us a little bit
about it well this is my 31st direct
31st year directing the choir and we
have 240 children ages 7 to 18 from all
around the Roanoke Valley and
surrounding communities and they're
divided into three training choirs and a
concert choir and we have all sorts of
wonderful learning experiences
throughout the year and great
performance experiences so 31 years it
started with how many did you say
twenty-three twenty-four and then have
two hundred and twenty forty children
yes and then when you break them down
into the different choirs are they
separated by age or by like snow level
age and skill level mostly age so we
have three training choirs little
getting a little bigger and then our
concert choir is mostly high school
students so yeah let's talk about the
the ages so it goes all the way through
high school goes all the way through
high school so we if you've completed
first grade you're you're eligible to
audition this year and our auditions are
May 5th 7th and 10th at Holland's
University and it's a simple audition
and it's a lot of fun they're just
saying my country tis of thee
I see how high they can sing hello they
can sing we play a few echo games then
we have a big box of candy on their way
out it is five what type of kids are you
looking for when it comes to those
auditions just children who like to sing
they don't have to have any formal
training or any experience and music or
singing just a love of singing okay
that's cool and if somebody is maybe out
of the age or just wants to come enjoy
some music how can they do that you all
have a performance coming up yes
tell us about that our spring concert
our 31st annual spring concert is this
Sunday at the Jefferson Center and we
have concerts at 1:30 and 4:30 and
tickets are available at Jefferson org
or also on our website which is
children's choir com so tell us a little
bit about what people can expect at the
concert
beautiful classical music and we have
members of the Roenick Symphony
Orchestra accompanying us with a string
quartet and we have classical music some
Broadway selections from Oliver and also
a big patriotic finale with the Salem
flag Corps joining us at the very end
very cool
so I mean 31 years is a long time what's
your your favorite part because I will
say our producer Joanna was a part of it
and you remembered her and that's our
specials so talk about what your
favorite part is well that's my favorite
part
are these children that I get to see
grow up from little too big and lots of
them start when they're seven or eight
and stay through their senior year and
they're they're just they're my children
too yeah we're like family and so when I
figured out that was Joanna I was super
excited the she was excited too and she
said that it was just so wonderful to be
a part of so people can get their their
kids involved their grandkids involved
and they can come see you will you give
us the details one more time
yes our concert is this Sunday at the
Jefferson Center tickets will be
available at the door or online at
Jefferson org okay well before we go
away we do have another little clip
thank you so much thanks for having me
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