Sunset in Hawaii!
Finale Concert - at Blaisdell Concert Hall
The Pacific Rim Children's Chorus Festival
The Pacific Rim Children's Chorus Festival, is designed to provide treble children's choirs, in grades 6
through 12, an opportunity to experience the cultures of the Pacific Rim countries through their choral music
repertoire in an interactive, non-competitive, creative environment. Participants will interactively explore music,
dance, instruments, language and story-telling with native speakers and instructors.
What makes this Festival experience unique?
- Sing authentic, ethnic, choral literature from Pacific Rim countries
- Learn Polynesian dances with native instructors
- Practice text and language with native speakers
- Discover musical instruments and dance implements from Polynesia
- Observe ethnic music and dance performances of Pacific Rim cultures
- Perform at two major Hawai'i concert venues
- Interact with children's choruses from Hawai'i and Pacific Rim countries
- What will each singer take home?
- A festival workbook of educational and resource materials
- A handmade musical instrument or dance implement
- A festival T-shirt
- A world of new friends
- A lifetime of musical memories
- What countries represent the Pacific Rim?
Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Philipines, Singapore, Taiwan, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,
Samoa, Tonga, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Peru, Mexico, United States
