2011/2012 Season Performance Schedule for the North American Choral Company

An American Experience

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Park Church

4:30 PM

Tickets $6/adults - $3/students

A concert of American folk music featuring songs from throughout the United States including Northeast Shaker songs,
Southern blues and Americana, Songs from the prairie and the old West and more.

(Included in the season ticket price and package.)

Michigan Sings!

(Three performances)

Sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Council

Friday, December 2, 2011

Wealthy Theater

7:00 PM

Free and open to the public

The first of 3 Michigan Sings concerts featuring singers from the NACC’s In-school program. The series celebrates Michigan’s
unbelievable contribution to our nation’s popular music culture. Theses concerts are free and open to the public as per the grant.

Friday, January 13, 2012

Creston High School Auditorium

7:00 PM

Free and open to the public

Second concert in the Michigan Sings series.

Sunday, February 19, 2012
1:15PM

Grand Rapids Public Library - Main

In conjunction with the GRPL’s Taste of Soul series, this third and final concert in our Michigan Sings series will feature
selected groups from our in-school program to be featured in this extra special event.

All Blues

April 29, 2012

Dog Story Theater
Tickets $10

NACC Singers explore the blues from its original form through its metamorphosis into one of the preeminent musical forms of the 20^th century.
They will examine the blues in its many forms, and demonstrate how ubiquitous the blues has become in music from America and many other parts of the world.

(Included in the season ticket price and package.)

Sunny Wilkinson in Concert

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Van Andel Museum Center – Meijer Theater

Tickets: $15

The NACC presents, vocal jazz artist Sunny Wilkinson and her trio in concert. Sunny has had a long career as a recording artist and music educator.
She founded the vocal jazz program at MSU and continues to record and perform.

(Included in the season ticket price and package.)

Around the World

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Trinity United Methodist Church

Tickets: $6/adult - $3/students

A concert highlighting folk songs from around the world including East Africa, Japan, the Caribbean, Europe and South America.

(Included in the season ticket price and package.)

PLease Note: The season tickets include the All Blues Concert but those individual tickets are not available at this time. The single ticket cost for that concert is $10.

Season Tickets:
Adults $25

An American Experience
$6/adults
$3/students

Sunny Wilkison
$15

All Blues
$10

Around the World
$6/adults
$3/student

The North American Choral Company is the only music education and performance organization for young people in West Michigan that has as its mission and purpose the fusion of music, other arts and the humanities and focuses on incorporating these disciplines in all its programming. It is also the sole organization that brings these programs into multiple public schools during the academic day. Because of this the north american choral company brings to the residents of West Michigan exposure to the connecting of music to religion, history, literature and culture and does so in a way that is accessible to everyone.

Integral to the NACC is programming that can inform and shape the world-view of those who come within its reach. We believe that by bringing together people from diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences and facilitating meaningful dialogue between these groups that a shared understanding will ensue. From that understanding, partnerships will be cultivated that broaden and deepen the cultural awareness in the community. Once the partnerships are established, the process of asking questions and exploring various histories and shared experiences is possible. But the nacc goes further than asking the questions. It couples that open curiosity with the exploration of the music, history, culture, religion and art of diverse groups and show that the most common link between people is music.