YOUNG SINGERS 15th ANNIVERSARY SEASON PREVIEW
The 2017/2018 arts season is going to be a CELEBRATION SEASON for Young Singers of the Palm Beaches, as it is our 15th ANNIVERSARY!
15 amazing years of enriching the lives of children and enriching our community through song!
One of our young singers came up with our anniversary slogan: “Singing takes you places!” Indeed, it does. We are so proud of all that we can do to help children reach their full potential, and proud of all that our young members achieve as well.
We hope that you will consider running a feature on our organization to celebrate our anniversary season. We have so many wonderful things happening this season, including:
- Two new choirs: Lyric and Encore. These new ensembles will be featured out in the community as well as in our season concerts.
- Two new conductors: Welcome Terrion Nelson and Will Lopes.
- Our artistic director, Shawn Berry, just published two pieces of music with Santa Barbara Music Publishing.
- Our conductor, Will Lopes, is also having original music published.
- The annual Winter Concert is scheduled for December 9, 2017 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
- The annual Spring Concert is scheduled for May 20, 2018 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
- February 3, 2018 will see our 5th Annual Mary Murray Scholarship 5K Family Walk/Run at Okeeheelee Park. We make the run more fun ‘cause we serve pancakes, have live entertainment, giveaways, and more.
- Our satellite program, Choir in the Glades, has expanded to include a middle school choir at Lake Shore Middle School, serving students in Belle Glade.
- Our upper-level choirs are preparing for a tour to Denver, Colorado where they will participate in Sing A Mile High International Children’s Choral Festival.
In addition to all the exciting things that will be happening within our organization this season, focus should also be brought to our young singers themselves. We have an amazing group of children, ages 8 to 18, that support each other and their community through many service projects and sharing of their talents. We are also expecting a many of our alumni to make their appearance this season to celebrate our anniversary with us. Annually, alum come back to YSPB to mentor current members, assist backstage during concerts, and we have a team of alum working as interns for us as well.
And… speaking of coming back, we are expecting to get our founders on stage together again. Two of them, Shawn Berry and Connie Drosakis are still conducting our choirs, but our third founder, Michael Yannette, is now teaching in North Carolina. We are hopin that he will make it back to Florida to celebrate with us.