See the new 2018 details below! Limited space available! 
Only 10 high school and 10 7th/8th grade girls from Caravel are eligible to attend. Please click the link below if you are interested in participating. Mrs. Busovsky will need to know by Thursday, September 20th @10pm who wants to participate. Only the first 10 to click the link below will receive the official registration forms and school permission slip!  Registration Deadline is Thursday September 27th!  Cost is $45 (made payable to Delaware ACDA) which includes music, t-shirt and dinner. 

Students from 7-12th grade are welcome to attend the second annual Festival for Women's Voices!  We invite choir directors across the state of Delaware to nominate excited and deserving young women to take part in this full day festival, which will take place at the beautiful new Geipel Center for The Performing Arts at The Sanford School in Hockessin!  Students will work with Dr. Duane Cottrell, Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Delaware throughout the day and conclude with a concert, featuring:
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The Delaware Women’s Chorus
The University of Delaware University Singers
Concord High School Bella Voce
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 Our clinician for the festival will be Dr. Joy Hirokawa, assistant professor of music education at Moravian University.  The University Singers from University of Delaware, along with the Delaware Women’s Choir, and a high school Women’s Choir will perform alongside your singers at the closing festival concert.  This promises to be a day filled with phenomenal and enriching musical experiences for your students.  A snap shot of the schedule is as follows:

 9:00am:Registration                                                              10:00am-12:30- Rehearsals with Dr. Hirokawa                  12:30-1:30- Student provided lunch and socializing           1:30-5:00- Rehearsals with Dr.Hirokawa                          5:00-6:15- ACDA provided dinner, socializing, and changing                                                                    
6:15-6:30- Warm-up                                                              6:30- Concert begins with HS Women’s Choir, Delaware Women’s Chorus, University Singers and Festival Choir
8:00- Parents take you home after the concert at Sanford. There is NO RETURN BUS TO CARAVEL!  

Caravel 7th-12th Graders at the Festival:

2017 Festival under the direction of Dr. Duane Cottrell:

Practice Tracks for 2018 Festival: