Crescent City Choral Festival

09/05/2024

The Crescent City Choral Festival 2025 is filling up quickly. If you want to participate, please don 't wait until our deadline of October 1 to apply. All signs point to our reaching capacity before that deadline. We have SSA and SATB tracks. We have been receiving applications since June.

This festival will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the commissioning of Bob Chilcott's A Little Jazz Mass by the New Orleans Children's Chorus for the Crescent City Choral Festival. This is Bob's best-selling piece worldwide, and he has been conducting it all over the world this year. Our festival will be the culminating performance of this anniversary celebration. Other great repertoire will also be performed.

06/25/2024

The New Orleans Children's Chorus is thrilled to announce the 24th annual Crescent City Choral Festival in 2025! This world-class festival is in its 24th successful year. Enjoy the historic charm of New Orleans and our legendary hospitality. Stay in the luxurious Loews Hotel, in walking distance to all festival venues. Savor our world-famous cuisine. And best of all, have FUN and a fabulous MUSICAL EXPERIENCE. The celebrated English composer, Bob Chilcott will conduct " A Little Jazz Mass", one of his best-selling pieces worldwide, and will write a new piece, which will be premiered at our final concert. Artistic Director, Cheryl Dupont will share the conducting of both tracks.

Interest is already high and several choirs are already registered. All treble and high school age mixed choirs are invited to join us for a memorable experience.

We hope to see you in 2025.

You will fall in love with New Orleans!

02/05/2020

We are busily working on the Crescent city Choral Festival 2020, while also planning the 2021 Festival. CCCF features Treble and Mixed Choir tracks for singers ages 10-18.

"We Rise Again", composed by Leon Dubinsky and arranged by Lydia Adams. Performed at the 2013 Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans, LA. Conducted by ...

05/07/2019

Give Nola Day starts at midnight TONIGHT!! Please consider making a donation of any size to help the New Orleans Children's Chorus prepare young people for a lifetime of singing. Giving ends tomorrow, Tuesday, at 11:59 PM,

Lelia, writer, entrepreneur, and NOCC alum, shares her experience with the chorus and her plans for her son's participation. Donate to the New Orleans Childr...

11/21/2014

Here is a recording from the 2013 Crescent City Choral Festival, featuring the combined mixed and treble tracks, with Artistic Director Cheryl Dupont conducting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lwONZ_Js7U

"We Rise Again", composed by Leon Dubinsky and arranged by Lydia Adams. Performed at the 2013 Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans, LA. Conducted by ...

08/15/2014

NOCC is looking for young people who love to sing! Now registering young people ages 5-18 for one of our four ensembles. NOCC offers great fun, wonderful musical experiences, outstanding staff, exciting concerts and convenient locations. This seasons plans include a Broadway concert, a workshop with internationally renowned
British composer/conductor Bob Chilcott, and a tour to Chicago for the two advanced choirs. We will be doing placement hearings the next four weekends. Please help us spread the word to kids you know. www.neworleanschildrenschorus.org. 504 482-2883.

06/04/2014

Counting down to the 2014 Crescent City Choral Festival with Guest Artist Sandra Snow, Artistic Director/Conductor Cheryl Dupont, and Composer-in-Residence Andrea Ramsey! Ten fine children and youth choirs will also be with us. Free concert on Monday, June 30 at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans at 7:30 PM. Please join us!!!

04/23/2014

New Orleans Children's Chorus online Auction ends TONIGHT at 9 PM Central time!!! The glitches we were experiencing last night seem to have straightened out! Please check out our wonderful items before it's too late! Some items still have no bids, and lots of bargains are still available!

https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?auctionId=207747519

The New Orleans Children's Chorus is now open. The auction will run from April 9, 2014 to April 23, 2014, with proceeds going to New Orleans Children's Chorus in order to support the mission of NOCC to provide performance based choral music education to the young people of the New Orleans metropolit…