The first choir concert of the year is being held on October 2nd at 8pm in Arrowhead’s East gym.

North choir, South Select, the Treble choir, and the Baritone Chorale are going to be present at this concert.

Each of these separate sections of the choir will sing two songs of their own and four with the rest of the group.

The four with the entire choir are “Just Over in the Glory Land”, “Hall of Fame”, “No Rocks A Cryin’”, and “the National Anthem.”

Head choir teacher Nancy Jorgensen says, “We chose these songs because we wanted to add a variety to the amount of songs being sung.”

There are 400 kids in the choir this year.

There are three concerts every year: the fall concert, which is the upcoming one, the holiday concert, which is around December, and the spring concert.

The concerts usually last about one to one and half hours. The  upcoming fall concert will be an hour long.

The singers tend to stand quite a large amount of the time during the concert.

A Junior at Arrowhead and a Metzo in the choir, Caitlin Englebert says, “I do dislike the standing, but we get a much better sound when we stand and it makes us a better choir altogether.”

The kids in the choir say they love the different variety of songs that are being sung this year.

Englebert says, “I love the song ‘Rocks A Cryin”’ because it’s a gospel song and I think gospel is really fun to sing. I also love the song ‘Hall of Fame’ because I think it is long and it will broaden the choices for new songs to come.”

Jorgensen says, “People attend the concerts because it’s a tradition to them. They know if they come to that concert,, it will be worth it and they respect the quality the students provide for them.”

This choir concert is going to be interesting because of the new foreign songs mixed in with the English songs and the choir is a new group of kids, as it is every year.

South Select is singing Swahili songs. North choir is singing three German songs, and Treble choir is singing in Spanish. There is even a Cherokee song being sung as well.

The other choir teacher, Grace Bielski, says that she is proud of the work the kids have done so far. She said the choir had to learn all the songs in four weeks and they did it, even the foreign songs.

She also says she is proud of the soloist.

Jorgensen agrees with Bielski, commending the soloists and adds that she is also proud that there are a lot of people offering their instruments in the concert.

They have three guitar players, a pianist, a violinist, and even someone playing the banjo.

“The past few years that I have taken choir at Arrowhead the concerts have been great, aside from the heat in the gym while we sing. It’s very fun the see all the other parts of the choir singing their songs and to see the variety of the concert,” Says Englebert.