Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone out there! We will be celebrating and getting into the holiday spirit with a free sing-a-long at the Taubman Art Museum in Roanoke, tonight, Friday Dec 14th, at 7:00 pm.
Feel free to stop by, say hi, and sing some carols with us!
Everything came together for a great 2018 RVCC Holiday Concert!
Ms. D - Congratulations to our talented and hard working young choristers for a beautiful concert. Many thanks to all of our backstage crew comprised of RVCC alumni and parents and grandparents. Thank you to the Jefferson Center for all of their help with the time-change due to snow. Thank you to the beautiful instrumentalists. Bravo and thank you to everyone who helped us “Sing Before It Snows”!! We did it!! WOW! Did we ever!! Congratulations to us all. All of our hard work gave us an outstanding performance day.
The good folks at Living Local (including choir alumni Kiana Price) had Ms. D on to talk about the choir and the holiday Concert. Check it out!
We had the best Fall Retreat! Wonderful singing! Wonderful fun! Wonderful friendships! We made so much progress on our music and I am so proud of all our choristers! The Fall Retreat is always a highlight of the year!
Thank you to the AMAZING Fall Retreat committee!!!!
Sandra Church Co-Chair
Asha Riegodedios Co-Chair
Jenna Giannini Rooming Assignments
Debbie Bell Chaperone Coordinator
Lynne Latino Activities Director
Enid Mau Volunteer Coordinator
Mechelle Perdue Volunteer Coordinator
Julie Summerville Registrar
Stephanie Wimbish Nurse
Thank you to all the Super Chaperones!!!! Thank you so much!!!!
Laura Anderson
Jenny Baldwin
Diane Bell
Sophia Berkel
Courtnee Bishop
Harry Brown
Sharon Clark
Kaitlin Classey
Michelle Cordle
Cherie Davis
Catherine Eakin
Jennifer Elliot
Chasity Fitzpatrick
Laura Godfrey
Maria González
Michelle Hayden
Jaime Hodges
Candice Hoyos-Troutt
Namita Jain
Kerrie Jolley
Lisa Lovern
Kathy Lynch
Lois Martin
Cassandra Mierisch
Lisa Moore
Michael Moore
Shannon Murdock
Leigh Ogle
Laurie Otey-Williams
Puja Patel
Melissa Phillips
Meredith Rogan
Mary Rosser Furr
Kim Roudebush
Karen Rowe
Heather Saunders
Veronica Snyder
Jann Swartzendruber
Emily Switzer
Hiral Vaishnav
Lydia Vargas
Sherry Williams
Anna Wysinski
Jefferson Center: 540-345-2550
http://jeffcenter.org/RVCC-holiday2018
For the best seats, call or book online early!!
Concerts at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA
December 9th, 2018
1:30pm & 4:00pm
*Shaftman Hall will add a $3 processing fee to each ticket.
The Christmas Concert is a highlight of the year! Don’t miss this opportunity to have friends and family come to see your child at his/her best!!
We look forward to seeing you there!
*We would like to fill all the seats at each performance! Please help spread the word and let’s have two full audiences for our choristers!
The RVCC was featured in an article in the October 2018 edition of the Roanoker Magazine!
“Roanoke Has a Lot to Celebrate” - an article about the arts in Roanoke in 2018. The RVCC is focused on in the article, along with the Roanoke Symphony, The Jefferson Center, Broadway in Roanoke, and Southwest Virginia Ballet.
Check out the article online here:
The RVCC is happy to announce a Summer Audition time at our new Rehearsal Home, Bethel Baptist Church in Salem.
Auditions will be on August 4th from 10:00am - 12:00pm at Bethel Baptist Church in Salem, VA.
We especially have openings for young singers, entering grades 2-8! For the audition, we’ll sing through the first verse of “My Country Tis of Thee”, check your range and musical listening skills.
It’s quick! It’s easy! It’s fun!
If you have any questions about the Auditions, please feel free to contact Ms. Kim Davidson, director of the choir. kimdavidson@childrenschoir.com
We are happy to announce a new chapter for the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir at Bethel Baptist Church. The location is central to the majority of our singers, the facility is spacious and beautiful, and the people are kind and generous. It is a wonderful new rehearsal home for the RVCC!
It is convenient to 419 and Hwy 81 and is less than 15 minutes from Cave Spring HS, Hidden Valley HS, Northside HS, Patrick Henry HS, Salem HS, Glenvar HS and William Fleming HS.
The rehearsals will be held in the spacious Sanctuary with small groups, like the A Choir rehearsing in the Choir Room. We will also have access to the Fellowship Hall for choreography rehearsing and occasional snacks! Parking is available between the main church building and the new Activities building and also across the street. On rehearsal days, the choir will hire a professional crossing guard to help children cross the street.
Rehearsals will be on the usual Monday schedule beginning on August 27 for the full choir.
A/B Choir 4:00-5:30
B+ Choir 5:00-6:30
C Choir 7:00-9:00
Our most heartfelt thank you to Bethel Baptist Church for opening their doors to us and supporting our Community Children’s Choir with perfectly suited rehearsal and storage space. Thank you Bethel Baptist Church!
If you have any questions about the Auditions, please feel free to contact Ms. Kim Davidson, director of the choir. kimdavidson@childrenschoir.com
The C Choir had a great trip to Chicago and the Midwest! They sang at a festival in Chicago with several other Children's Choirs from around the nation with special guest conductor, Lynnel Joy Jenkins. The final festival performance was at the beautiful St. James Cathedral. It was magnificent! Also in Chicago they had lots of FUN with free time, shopping, sight-seeing, a Lake Michigan Boat Cruise, and a special Senior dessert night!
Next on the trip was a stop at Valparaiso University, Ms. Davidson's Alma mater, to sing in the Valparaiso Chapel. Then it was a visit to Amish County in Shipshewana, IN! The choir enjoyed dinner at an Amish farm and after dinner everyone sang songs for each other. A truly beautiful moment sharing music together.
The next day the choir gave a concert in Coldwater, MI at First Baptist Church of Coldwater. Ms. Davidson is a 1977 graduate of Coldwater High School and it is always so special to bring the choir back to her home town to perform! After the concert, it was time for cookies at Grandma Myrt's house!
Grandma Myrt's House
The last day was a super fun-filled day at Cedar Point Amusement! Everyone made it home safely and it was a wonderful trip!
A note from Ms. D about the Chicago Trip 2018:
"My heart is filled with gratitude to our chaperones, trip leader Michelle Sublett, and all the choristers who make me so proud. It is beautiful to watch our choristers not only sing, but interact as team players, kind and helpful everywhere we go. Thank you for making this trip such a joy. Lots of love to all our choir families who are truly like family to me." - Ms. D ️
Our warmest RVCC thank you to Hollins University for providing such beautiful rehearsal space for us for 5 years. We’ve loved our time at Hollins and are so appreciative to all of the fine folks at HU who welcomed us. HU will always be an important part of the history and journey of the RVCC and we are most grateful.
Contact us to schedule your audition time!
Call or Text: 540-RChorus (540-724-6787)
The RVCC's 2018 Live Spring Concert CD and DVD are available to purchase! You can buy the CD right here online. You can also mail in a CD or DVD order form.
CD's will be mailed to you. Please provide your address during checkout.
Order 2018 RVCC Spring Concert CD with a card or Paypal - Select below:
You can also order CD's by filling out this order form with the money enclosed:
mail CD form to: Roanoke Valley Children's Choir - 718 Joan Circle - Salem VA, 24153
You can order DVD's by filling out this order form with the money enclosed:
mail DVD form to: Allison Parkhurst - 421 North Blair Street - Vinton VA, 24179
The Roanoke Valley Children's Choir's 31st Annual Spring Concert is this weekend! And we have our Annual Newcomer Auditions coming up in May! Here is Director, Kim Davidson, on WSLS Daytime Blue Ridge telling about these exciting events coming up in the RVCC!
Come and hear the beautiful singing of our Nationally Recognized Children's Choir this Sunday, April 22 at the Jefferson Center in Roanoke, VA. Tickets are available at Tickets.ChildrensChoir.com
Come and JOIN the choir by signing up for a newcomer audition on May 5, 7, or 10th held at the Dupont Chapel at Hollins University. Sign Up for your audition at Auditions.ChildrensChoir.com! We would LOVE to have you come and sing with us!
The RVCC was on the WDBJ7 news today! Thank you WDBJ7 for giving us the opportunity to talk about our upcoming concert this Sunday at the Jefferson Center and Newcomer Auditions May 5, 7, and 10th. Choristers Alice Radjou and Kennady Wade joined Director, Kim Davidson, for the interview. Also along for the fun were choir mom, Sara Radjou, choir mom Kianna Marini, and choir grandma Anita Anita James Price.
This year, The RVCC has partnered with a local early childhood education advocacy organization, Smart Beginnings of Greater Roanoke, for our very first Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir Choristers Caring Concert.
A portion of the proceeds from the 4:30 p.m. community concert on April 22, 2018 will benefit the Smart Beginnings’ “Musical Fences” projects in the Roanoke Valley at various preschool and child care centers. These beautiful fences are installed on playgrounds to help some of the very youngest musicians in our area learn to appreciate music and enhance their play.
At our fall retreat, a representative from Smart Beginnings made a presentation to the choristers of the RVCC about Smart Beginnings and the musical fence project. Choristers have also donated some items to help build the fences and some choristers will be able to help put them together and see children enjoying them!
To learn more about the good work of Smart Beginnings of Greater Roanoke, go to the website, smartbeginnngs.org.
Though “Now & Forever” is 24-year-old Kirsti Davidson’s first composition created for an orchestra, it’s not her first piece of music written for Roanoke audiences. She’s composed choral scores for the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir for many years. She’s been assisting her mother, choir founder and director Kim Davidson, since she was a teenager.
Read the remainder of the story HERE
Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:00 am
By Mike Allenmike.allen@roanoke.com 981-3236
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