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2025 Thursday, March 20 Continued on next page
March 18-22 Dallas, TX
7:00 am - 7:00 pm 8:00 am - 8:50 am Junior High/Middle School Choirs
R&R Forum
Registration Open
Contemporary A Cappella
Sheraton Dallas Hotel R&R Forum OPEN TO BOTH TRACKS
Grand Hall First United Methodist Church
OPEN TO BOTH TRACKS
Atrium
7:30 am - 8:00 am First United Methodist Church
Crossroads In Our Choir Era
Student Activities A Cappella 101 We all want students to fill one
R&R Forum of their schedule’s blank spaces
Contemporary a cappella has with choir/chorus! Perhaps you’re
OPEN TO BOTH TRACKS
become one of the fastest-growing stuck on how to retain students
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM PRE-FORUM MEETING forms of group singing in the from year to year and you want
AT STARBUCKS 2200 ROSS AVE
country. Artists like Pentatonix and to “bejewel” them back? We’ve
cultural hits like Pitch Perfect have definitely all been in a place where
Student Activities Panel Session energized a generation of singers at we need to recruit more students.
8:30-9:50, information on page 61. high schools and universities across If that’s you, don’t worry. Just
America. For anyone wondering how “shake it off” and get “ready for
to start a contemporary a cappella it.” Join Clinton (Hardy) Ferrie as
8:00 am - 3:00 pm and group as part of your program, A he shares a variety of instructional
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Cappella 101 is the session for you! games and materials for the middle
Led by Rob Dietz (The Sing-Off, Glee), school/junior high classroom that
this forum will cover everything will have your students feeling like
Exhibits Open you need to know in order to start they are the masterminds of choir.
Meyerson Symphony Center or grow an a cappella program Your students will be telling their
Street Level, Second Level, and of your own. Topics will include friends “look what they made me
do. I had to sing back up for choir.”
Lower Level pop vocal pedagogy, teaching
vocal percussion/beatboxing, bass We want everyone to have a choir
Winspear Opera House singing, mic technique, where to find era, so come out to this session and
arrangements, and more! experience what you can do to
make it true.
Presenter: Rob Dietz
8:00 am - 8:50 am
Presenter: Clinton (Hardy) Ferrie
Exhibitor’s Showcase
OPEN TO BOTH TRACKS
National Association of
Teachers of Singing
Meyerson Symphony Center
Horchow Hall
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