National Cathedral Celebrates Youth Choirs with Annual Festival
Several Georgetown area schools participated in the annual CELEBRATE YOUTH! choir festival at the Washington National Cathedral.
Nearly 300 students arrived separately by bus at the Washington National Cathedral Wednesday, easily grouped by their plaid skirts, senior sweatshirts and matching blazers, but by the night’s end, they meshed into a unified choir. The high school students represented nine schools, public, charter and private, in the District of Columbia as they participated in the 8th annual Cathedral Choral Society’s (CSS) CELEBRATE YOUTH! festival at the National Cathedral. “The directors love it and the kids love it,” Interim Executive Director of the CCS Margot Young told Patch. “This setting is for the kids to have a chance to sing and learn from kids that they would have otherwise never met.” Each choir performed either one or two chosen selections …
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