By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current

The Community Choir of Geneseo will celebrate their 16th annual concert this summer with a theme of “Does It Matter?” The performance is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 26, in the Geneseo High School Concert Hall.

The Community Choir is open to those entering eighth grade and older adults. Rehearsals are held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning May 29 and continuing through June 19 in the Geneseo High School Concert Hall.

Repertoire includes: “Do You Hear the People Sing?” “Memory,” and “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.”

Anyone interested in singing with the group is asked to contact Pam Edwards, director, at 309-944-6641 or email singplay53@gmail.com by May 3.

Youth entering grades 4-7 are invited to sing in the Children’s Choir which rehearses on June 20, 21, 24, 25 and 26, and will perform with the Community Choir on June 26.

Registration forms are available from Geneseo elementary and middle school choir instructors or by contacting Pam Edwards. The deadline to register is May 3. Repertoire includes: “Play For Me a Simple Melody,” and a “Mary Poppins Medley.”

Combined choirs will sing “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee,” “Sing, Sing, Sing,” “Earth Song,” and “God Bless the USA.”