{"id":98825,"date":"2016-04-22T12:12:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T17:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98825"},"modified":"2016-04-28T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:28:00","slug":"big-sing-7pm-sat-april23-jamestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98825","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Big Sing&#8221; Held in Jamestown -Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) This year the Regional Big Sing is being hosted by the Jamestown Choralaires, with the Mass Concert set\u00a0was\u00a0<strong>Saturday April 23 at at the Jamestown Civic Center.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"easyRotatorWrapper\" align=\"center\">\r\n\r\n<!-- Begin DWUser_EasyRotator -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/c520866.r66.cf2.rackcdn.com\/1\/js\/easy_rotator.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div class=\"dwuserEasyRotator\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 451px; position:relative; text-align: left;\" data-erConfig=\"{autoplayEnabled:true, 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The accompanist is Carrie Kraft.<\/p>\n<p>Mark said Jamestown can expect 240 singers including the 45 members of the Choralaires, from North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In addition there should be about 110 spouses, along with 20 chorus directors and along with accompanists. Jamestown last hosted The Big Sing in 2012, noted that planning for this year\u2019s concert took about two years, as the concert travels to locations around the upper midwest.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown has also hosted The Big Sing in 1997, and 2004. He pointed out that the last Big Sing in Jamestown was attended by about 800-900 people.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the Big Sing is put on by the Associated Male Chorus of America, (AMCA) Midwest District, of which the Choralaires belong.<\/p>\n<p>Pam said the Choralaires will start their Mass Concert with a sacred song and present a variety of songs, concluding with a patriotic number.<\/p>\n<p>The will be joined for a song by the Jamestown Boys Choir, under the direction of Meredith Meidinger.<\/p>\n<p>The Girls Choir will perform as part of the Choralaires Ladies activities, at the Saturday luncheon at the Masonic Temple in Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $15 and $5 for Students, available in advance from the Jamestown Civic Center, Choralaires or Boys Choir members or at the door.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98695\" target=\"_blank\">Choralaires Ladies Group<\/a>&#8220;will also host a luncheon on Friday April 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, and is organizing other activities and events for the Big Sing visitors.<\/p>\n<p>More information on line at CSiNewsNow.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) This year the Regional Big Sing is being hosted by the Jamestown Choralaires, with the Mass Concert set\u00a0was\u00a0Saturday April 23 at at the Jamestown Civic Center.\u00a0 The Jamestown Drum and Bugle Corps will provide the pre-concert music beginning at 6:30 p.m. Joining us on Thursday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csicelebrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98825"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99721,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98825\/revisions\/99721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}