The campus Music Department will be holding a festival for the Celebration choir, May 3. The Fresno Favorites Festival will start at 4 p.m,, and end at 5 p.m., however students are required to arrive at 1:30 p.m. in order to prepare for the festival.
The festival will be held in the Peoples Church main auditorium, where the FC Celebration Choir will be performing with Peoples School of Creative Arts (PSCA), and Buchanan.
Student’s must wear their Black music department t-shirts with jeans. Each school will perform their own various songs, and once all of the choirs finish performing they will join together to sing three songs as a mass choir.
Sophomore Madison Seib is looking forward to seeing some of her friends from the PSCA choir.
“I used to be home-schooled, so I’ll be able to see my old friends there,” Seib said. “I think the festival is a great way to bring our home-schooled students together with FCS to promote our school.”
Junior Robbie Hill is excited about the event, and hopes to give the audience a good performance.
I’m really excited, We’ve never hosted something like this before so, I think it’ll be really fun singing with the home-schooled students and Buchanan,” Hill said. “Hopefully we can give the crowd an awesome performance.”
Music Director Michael Ogdon believes that the festival will be fun and give a chance for students to interact with other schools.
“I think that it’ll be a lot of fun; at the end of the year everyone gets tired of festivals but this isn’t like those kind of festivals,” Ogdon said. “It’s more of a ‘let’s hang out and have some fun’ kind of a thing.”
Ogdon came up with the idea to host this festival from previous experiences at the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) festival.
“We went to ACSI and rehearsed for two days, and by the end of it everyone was tired after it was over,” Ogdon said. “What students liked was singing together, what they didn’t like was all the work it took to sing together and the thought was to do the same kind of thing without having to do as much work.”
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