Six choir students traveled to a local college to perform college level music in a one hour concert after twelve hours of rehearsal.

Six Revere student traveled to the 4th Annual Kent State All-Star Choir Festival. The students selected to travel to Kent State University (KSU) on October 15, and 16 include seniors Ellie Edwards, Jessie Spann, Kelly Schikowski, Reid Thailing, and Sydney Borcherding, as well as sophomore Audrey Halverson. Over the course of the one and a half days spent at KSU, these students rehearsed for twelve hours and performed in a one hour concert at the university. 26 other schools also attended KSU, and anywhere from one to ten people traveled with each choir. Kent Roosevelt also traveled with their entire choir, because KSU selected them as the featured choir.

To have been selected to sing, long term choir substitute, Nick Modney nominated students, and then KSU selected each student again. Voice Parts that traveled include alto 1, Edwards and Halverson, soprano 2, Borcherding and Spann, soprano 1, Schikowski, and the only male who traveled, Thailing, singing bass. Seniors Edwards, Borcherding, and Spann have traveled with the choir to Kent three years in a row. Revere did not travel in 2014.

Edwards spoke about what the group achieved in the short amount of time these six students were on campus.

“We went in with a clean slate, and we were each given five to six new pieces of music to learn,” Edwards said.

All four senior girls agreed that either Unclouded Day or Dirait-on happened to stay their favorite pieces to perform throughout the course of the 12 hours of rehearsal. 

Schikowski described the biggest hardship the group faced.

“When you are learning music that fast, you’re not going to be confident in a short amount of time and you aren’t going to be 100% that quickly.” Schikowski said.