Congratulations Students and Families. Your choirs have qualified for, and will be attending the State Choral Festival this weekend. This is an incredible opportunity, not only to have qualified for a state level festival, but to perform at a venue as beautiful and memorable as Libby Gardner Hall. UMEA Thanks the U of U and staff at Libby Gardner Hall for their continued support as we host our festival in their beautiful facility each year.
This email contains many details that as student performers and parents you will want to know in order to fully experience this weekend’s event.
This is the link to the landing page for live streams through the University of Utah.
Every new stream (and scheduled streams) will appear there. If you subscribe, you will receive an email with the link to each new stream as we start them.
Live@Libby is the landing page for the live streams for our festival. Feel free to join our festival via livestream so you can celebrate your student’s success of qualifying and performing at a state level festival.
Pictures: Each choir will have a photograph of them taken on stage and a digital copy of the photograph will be sent to the directors shortly after the conclusion of the festival, which ends on Saturday evening. Directors will email those out to parents and students.
Schedule and Cautionary Warning: Please find the link to the schedule for the entire festival below. Pay close attention to the PERFORMANCE time as that is the time each choir will be on stage. Parking at Libby Gardner Hall (for those attending in person) is basically non-existent and there is currently construction on the street to the west of the concert hall. Plan plenty of time for parking/walking. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT DOORS SHUT AND LOCK WHILE CHOIRS ARE PERFORMING ON STAGE. Doors only open in between choirs (so every fifteen minutes). If you arrive after your student’s choir has taken the stage, you will not be able to see them perform. This sadly happens every year, so we really try to warn you that parking and walking in takes longer than expected. Link to schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t31KE6-hX-wDxBtnsYZFDY2ki5Mm3WYkvqTr1-nnhAI/edit?usp=sharing
Here is a link to a slide show introducing our World-Class Adjudicators who are traveling in to adjudicate and clinic the students this weekend: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1joTBeoAWt8CcA6mWH-P4c_bGZXKfpQj6DbmqU1RCJjI/edit?usp=sharing
Here is a link to the program for this weekend’s festival. It is NOT the schedule. It is a list of all 91 Choirs performing, and what repertoire they are performing. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UQgyFfCjfX3X-xnSdcBlqYHmDTArybzH/view?usp=sharing
An additional note: Please refrain from calling Libby Gardner Hall with any questions. All questions should be directed through your student’s Choir Director. Libby Gardner Hall hosts us (we rent the space from them to hold our festival) they don’t have any event information to help you. Thank you.
Thanks everyone! We are so excited to host all of you and hear your beautiful music this weekend!
~The UMEA State Large Choir Festival Management.