Help Wanted > More Volunteers Needed ! ! !

committeeLINK was a great success ~
Thanks to all those who attended!

We are still in need of more volunteers from each of the 5 choirs. We would like to have at least one person from each choir on each committee.

Thank you to GMCC for sending the most volunteers so far at 9 with 4 more coming!
Second place goes to BVCC with 7!

We would like to have one member from each chorus on each of the five sub-committees but we need A MINIMUM of 5 volunteers from each chorus. Please make sure your Chorus is represented.

Biggest Need: Sponsorship Sub-committee
This is an extremely vital committee as it helps raise funds and find sponsors so that we can pay for advertising, food, renting the Hanover Theatre, etc. Please consider helping with this. It is real easy and is as simple as making some phone calls to businesses and identifying decision makers. Finding businesses to advertise in the program and mailing out advertising and information packets to those that request them.

To Volunteer: Please send your name, chorus, phone and email to Mike Scully, Festival Chair at mscully@neacca.org

Calling All Willing Festival Volunteers!

committeeLINK - sub-committee

We have five sub-committees that

you can sign up for:

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Ticketing & Group Sales

Sponsorship & Partnership

Festival Operations

Concert Operations

Marketing & Publicity

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If you have not already received an invitation with full descriptions of these committees, please send an email to mscully@neacca.org with committeeLINK in the subjectline.

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Helping with a committee is extremely vital. Please make every effort to have every possible person sign up for .

DIRECTORS: Please bring any member forms and checks that you have not turned in yet!

Festival Music Selections

Here is what I have:

By clicking on the links below

and ordering from that link,

you help support NEACCA.

Apple Tree Arts Community Chorus =
"Hope for Resolution", Paul Caldwell
Earthsongs, 541/758-5760

Blackstone Valley Community Chorus =
"He's Got the Whole World", Ray Liebau
Walton Music, SATB, WOM103

Greater Auburn Community Chorus =
"Choose Something Like a Star", Randall Thompson
E.C. Schirmer Music Co, SATB, Catalogue number 2487.

Greater Milford Community Chorus =
"River Song", Cynthia Gray
Heritage Music Press, SATB, (H480)

Westborough Community Chorus =
"It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Aint Got That Swing)"
Irving Mills, Ellington, Huff, Alfred Publishing, SAB

Happy New Year!

It's a new year.

Time for new members, new songs, new opportunities.

The 2009 NEACCA chorus festival is only months away. Five community choirs have taken the initiative and are coming together on the stage at the Hanover Theatre. Over 200 voices on New Englands newest Theatre!

Are you a director or member of a community chorus in New England? Do you want to help grow and develop your group? Do you want to work on things like identity development, fundraising, grants, concert production, attendance development, marketing, ticketing, strategy or any other topic?

Become a member of the New England Area Community Chorus Association (NEACCA). Join other choirs from around New England to develop ideas, work through challenges, network, learn and help your group grow. For more details, please send an email to: membership@neacca.org

Merry Christmas

I wanted to wish you and your families,
a very Merry Christmas.

Bravo to all who participated in Christmas Caroling '08

Wow! I was able to see some of you this past weekend. I was honored to be asked by the executive director of the Hanover Theater to produce the Christmas Caroling ahead of the performances. I was thrilled to be able to invite you to sing there. But this was only a preiview of great things to come. Next June, we will all be able to move up from the lobby to the grand stage, move from separate choirs to one festival choir.

Wonderful job. The crowd was really happy to see and hear you.

Thank you to all the directors who helped prepare your groups for this exciting opportunity. Hopefully an annual tradition. Thanks to all the singers for helping make the season bright!

Merry Christmas

Save the date > Jan 22 - CommitteeLINK. Come get involved

and help make the 2009 festival possible. More to follow.