Choral Festival Honor Choir at Peru State College

On Tuesday evening of 26 February, Peru State College hosted the 11th Annual Choral Festival Honor Choir, an event that joins the college community with talented students from area high schools.

The Choral Festival Honor Choir was established in 1998 to allow talented singers to join with Peru State College singers in the Choral Festival Honor choir. Singers are selected on the basis of high school director recommendations. Eleven high schools participated in the 2008 Choral Festival Honor Choir, a total of 202 singers.

The students spend an engaging day of instruction and enjoyment with members of the Peru State College Concert Choir and the Misty Blues. The day's festivities conclude in song when over two hundred singers join with Peru State Students to create the Honors Choir.

You will find a brief slide show that includes images of both the Misty Blues show and the Honors Choir's performance. I tried to get as many group shots as possible, hoping in the process to include pictures of all the performers. If any images appeal to you, this site allows you to download--and the images are large enough to make very good prints.


To infuse the audience with energy, the Misty Blues performed. The video below attempts to capture the excitement and the joy of the group's concluding number, "Jelly's Jam."






The Honor Choir's presentation concluded with a fun song that you will certainly enjoy, "The Choir of the Office Clerks," which the Peru State Concert Choir sang a couple days earlier--click here to compare the two versions and enjoy the following video of the conclusion to an entertaining evening for everyone involved.