Five Country Day Upper School students were chosen to participate in the 74th J. Elwood Roberts Mars Hill University Choral Festival in February 2023.
More than 65 schools and 1,000 students from across North Carolina participated in the auditions with 350 students being accepted. The festival dates are February 17–18, 2023, on the campus of Mars Hill University in Mars Hill, NC.
Congratulations to the following students on this big honor:
- Benjamin Farnham
- Henry Fuller
- Paisley Fuller
- Lucas Pearce
- Shivani Sundaram
The final performance is on Saturday, February 18 at 3 pm in Moore Auditorium on the campus of Mars Hill University. The concert is free, and the public is invited to attend.
The J. Elwood Roberts – Mars Hill University Choral Festival was established in 1949 by the late J. Elwood Roberts, a faculty member in the Mars Hill music department and choir director of Mars Hill Baptist Church. Roberts wanted to improve choral music in the high schools of western North Carolina. While in the beginning the clinic comprised about 15 schools in the closely-surrounding area, this annual event has grown into one of the premiere choral festivals in North Carolina and is the longest-known continuously-running festival of its type in the southeast. Guest conductors have included some of the most prominent choral musicians in the United States.