Tickets on Sale Now!

Tickets for the 2010 NEACCA Community Chorus Festival are now on sale! We have launched a special early-bird price for tickets. This year, the concert will be held at the Performing Arts Center at Holy Name High School in Worcester, MA.

Over 1000 people attended the festival in 2009. We gained some great ideas and feedback from last year and put that into making the 2010 Festival a great one. We have changed the venue, the format and the length

Tickets purchased online will be mailed directly to the address you enter during the checkout process.

So get your tickets now, order information is at the top of the page.

If you have questions that are not answered in the instructions, send an email to tickets@neacca.org

2010 NEACCA Festival Choruses Announced

The groups performing in this year’s festival are Blackstone Valley Community Chorus under the direction of Diane Pollard, Appletree Arts Community Chorus under the direction of Donna Blanchard, and the Greater Milford Community Chorus under the direction of Don Thatcher.

The directors have picked out their combined NEACCA chorus music and your chorus will be holding your own rehearsals to learn this music prior to 6/19. Last year there was a little apprehension about learning the music on our own and putting it together on festival day, but what a thrill it was to hear the combined chorus, sing that first song… “River Song”!

2010 NEACCA Festival Date & Location Announced

We are excited to have the opportunity to perform on the stage at the Holy Name Performing Arts Center located at 144 Granite Street in Worcester.

We have planned a Festival date of Saturday June 19th.

Our day will begin at 11:00 with registration. The afternoon rehearsal schedule, which will be similar to last year’s festival, alotting time for each of the choruses to rehearse their own selections, as well as rehearsal time for the pieces with the full festival chorus.


Next Week: We will announce the participating choruses and directors.

2010 NEACCA Community Chorus Festival

Announcing the 2nd Annual 2010 NEACCA Community Chorus Festival

2010 brings new excitement and many changes to the format and structures of last years festival. With the feedback of those who participated in the first festival, we were able to build on the success of the first year.

We have come a long way from our 2009 festival. We have added a leadership team to help execute the festival planning & production, refine some of the processes and reduce the workload of volunteers. (More information to follow)

For those that participated last year, Registration information will be sent out to your chorus soon.

If you are a director or member of a Community Chorus and would like to find out about how your chorus could be a part of the 2010 NEACCA Community Chorus Festival, please send an email to info@neacca.org

Welcome to Crescendo

This is the new blog for the New England Area Community Chorus Association (neacca).Here you will find information about activites and ideas to build, develop and grow your community chorus. We have decided to name the blog "Crescendo" definition: become louder or stronger: to increase in volume or intensity. We thought it was a perfect name that highlights the purpose and focus of NEACCA.This is our mission: To develop, support, grow and strengthen community choirs in New England by providing information, best practices, leadership development, advocacy, and fundraising, networking and performance opportunities.For more information about joining NEACCA, please email us: membership@neacca.org

2009 NEACCA Festival

Want your chorus to be part of a future festival?
Contact Michael Scully at membership [at] neacca.org

NEACCA members singing at the Big Dipper Ice Cream Festival

10 Days Left

Its almost here! 10 short days until the largest community chorus festival and concert in New England History.

Information forms to all members will go out shortly.

Couple important things:

- You must be registered (completely filled out form & submitted) and and have paid your festival fee of $20 to participate in the festival.

- Registered members will receive a credential for access to Hanover Theatre, a souvenir 2009 NEACCA festival tshirt and a boxed dinner on festival day.

- Have you sold your minimum 4 tickets? While its too late for performing members to order general admission seats at a discount, you can still get Premium Wine Tickets until they sell out. Call Mike for details 508.922.9306

- See your director for schedule, requirements, attire and other questions. If your director does not have the answer, send an email to info [at] neacca.org.

Are you as excited as I am?

Thanks to everyone for your hard work.

Michael Scully
Executive Director
NEACCA

KJ Baarons to Sponsor 1st Annual Wine Social

KJ Baaron's Fine Wine and Spirits has signed on to sponsor the first annual Wine Social at the 2009 NEACCA Community Chorus Festival.

The Pre-Concert Wine & Cheese Social will be held in the newly renovated Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester, MA at 6:00 on June 20.
Tickets for this one of a kind event are $35 and include a premium seat to the Community Chorus Concert that same evening. This event is limited to the first 75 people who purchase the VIP ticket. Tickets are selling fast and only a couple dozen are left.

For VIP packages, please contact mscully@neacca.org

Tickets, Tickets, Tickets

Selling Tickets is the number 1 Priority.

We NEED to have 4 tickets sold by every participating
performer in order to be a success and of course to
pay the bills.

If you have already sold your 4, great, thank you.
Is there anyone else you know that would purchase tickets?

If you have not sold your tickets yet, please, please get
those orders in as soon as possible, time is running out.


Update:
Premium Tickets are selling extremely fast and are almost 70%
sold out. Wine Social Tickets are also selling fast and are about
30% sold out.

If you have questions, please see your choruses ticketing coordinator.
or send me an email. mscully@neacca.org

Next Meeting = Thursday 4/30

General Meeting will be from 7:30 - 8:30
Main discussion is about Ticket Sales, Advertising Sales, Volunteers

Committee Breakout meeting with Mike Scully
(If your committee members want to come, great!)
6:30 - Festival Operations -
Discuss Volunteers, Final suggestions for vendors
6:45 - Marketing -
Discuss publicity plan, contacts, story opportunities, potential paid ads
7:00 - Concert Operations -
Event logistics (video, audio, photo, flowers)
7:15 - Ticketing - Status, Q&A, ideas, etc

7:30 - General Meeting

Ticketing Update - Sell, Sell, Sell

Westborough Community Chorus takes the early lead in reported ticket sales with Apple Tree Arts close behind. Who will take the next round?

Remember Premium seats and Wine Social Tickets will most likely sell out. Orders done by the deadline will also save you money, so get your orders in as soon as possible.

Purchase tickets and get your orders in to your Chorus' ticketing coordinator!

Remember, in order to help ensure we have a great event and sizable audience, please sell a minimum of 4 tickets per performing member.

Questions about tickets can be directed to: tickets@neacca.org

Happy Selling!

Sponsors, Tickets, & Concerts, Oh My! (72days)

Sponsors
- GACC is officially the first to secure a sponsor for their portion
of the festival! Great job, GACC just earned a $200 grant and
extra points towards the overall competition. Who will be next?

Tickets
- All performing members are encouraged to sell their 4 tickets each as soon as possible. Please complete the order forms and return with payment to your ticketing coordinator in your chorus.
- Wine Social Tickets will sell fast, only 110 total available and 15 have already been sold!
- The best handicapped seats will sell fast = Premium is $22, Limited number of $15 seats left.

Concerts
Lets all support our fellow Community Chorus performers!
GACC > Congratulations on a great show!
GMCC > Performing May 1-2-3
BVCC > May 17th
WCC > (send me your performance dates)
ATACC > (send me your performance dates)
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Lots of work still to be done. Everyone please check in with your sub-committee leaders and make sure we are all on track.

A New Record!

It's Official - NEACCA has set a new record!
217 performers on one stage, representing over 40 towns
and five choruses to create the largest recorded community
chorus concert in New England history!

Get your tickets early, this is going to be big!

Wine Social seats, will sell out, hurry, talk
to your ticket coordinator or go to the
Hanover Theatre box office today!

Tickets on Sale Now!

Each chorus has a ticketing coordinator.
Ticket order forms will be available from them
to sell the minimum 4 tickets (no maximum,
but deadline will be May 1).

All tickets ordered through a member chorus save $2 per ticket.
(Savings already reflected in prices below)

General Admission: $15 (Doors open 6:15)
Premium Seating: $22 (First 7 rows of the Theatre)
Wine Social including Premium Seat: $35 (Doors open at 5:45)
(Max 110 tickets to be sold, for attendees, not performers)

NEACCA is LIVE on the Hanover Theatre website

It's official!

The 2009 NEACCA

Community Chorus

Festival & Concert is LIVE and

officially announced on the

Hanover Theatre website

on today, March 23rd.

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Tickets to Members and Hanover Theater Members will begin on March 30th.

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I will be making the rounds and visiting each of the choruses during the first week of April to announce the process, open up ticketing sales and answer any questions that your members might have. Each chorus will have a designated Ticketing Coordinator.

NEACCA 2009 - Its going to be big!

The New England Area Community Chorus Association is presenting their first annual community chorus festival on June 20th at the Hanover Theater for the Performing Arts.

NEACCA was inspired by a local chorus director who had a vision. This vision has led to the formation of NEACCA. We have brought together members of five New England community choruses, over 200 voices, and five directors, representing 38 cities and towns in central Massachusetts to present the largest recorded Community Chorus Concert & Festival in New England!

Our mission – “To support and strengthen community choruses in New England by providing information, best practices, leadership development, advocacy, fundraising and networking & performance opportunities.”

Please join us at the concert on June 20!
On behalf of the NEACCA, thank you!

2009 Festival Performance Order

The artistic directors for the five participating choirs, recently met and have decided on the performance order.

ACT I
1. Greater Milford Community Chorus
2. Apple Tree Arts Community Chorus
3. Westborough Community Chorus
4. Greater Auburn Community Chorus
5. Blackstone Valley Community Chorus

Intermission

ACT II
The festival choir will perform the selection from each participating choir in the same order as in Act I.

1) "River Song"
2) "Hope for Resolution"
3) "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)"
4) "Choose Something Like a Star"
5) "He's Got the Whole World"

2009 Festival Concert Attire

The artistic directors for the five participating choirs, recently met and have decided on the concert attire.

Festival attire, will be casual but focussed on comfort.

Concert attire will be as follows: (For more detail, see your director)

Apple Tree Arts Community Chorus = black white green
Blackstone Valley Community Chorus = black white red
Greater Auburn Community Chorus = black white glitz
Greater Milford Community Chorus = black & TBD color
Westborough Community Chorus = black white blue

For full details and clarification, see your choir director.

2009 Festival Subcommittee: Ticketing

Subcommittee Chair: Linnea Silvia (GMCC)

Members:
Anne-Marie McCarthy (GMCC)
Nancy Moore (BVCC)
Cathy Gosselin (BVCC)
Wanda Hendrix (ATACC)
Geraldine Brophy (GACC)
Kathy Olson (WCC)

Status: FULL
Report: Submitted
Progress: Good