logo - Ravenna Community Choir - since 1975

Ravenna Community Choir
Janis Harcar, Music Director

About Us/Join

Ravenna Community Choir (RCC) is an active group of citizens from Ravenna, Ohio, and surrounding communities. Our membership consists of people ranging in age from 18 to 80 from various religions and walks of life. Since the choir was founded in 1975, we have provided at least three major concerts each year for our community.

Repertoire

Included in our repertoire is a varied mixture of sacred and secular music. We have performed classical sacred music as well as traditional hymns, inspiring spirituals and contemporary cantatas. Much of our sacred music comes from today's most prolific sacred music composers including Joseph M. Martin, Pepper Choplin, Mark Hayes, Mary McDonald and Heather Sorenson. Our secular music has included some rousing patriotic numbers, beautiful folk songs from our country's past, popular show tunes and an occasional number from America's contemporary rock composers.

Activities

In addition to our three major hometown performances each year, the Ravenna Community Choir also travels as often as it can raise the money to do so. Beginning with a trip to Washington, D.C., to represent Ravenna during our bicentennial celebration in 1976, the choir continued to take its show on the road by performing in Indiana; Pennsylvania; Toronto, Ontario; New York; Tennessee; Michigan; Maine; North Carolina; Massachusetts; Missouri; West Virginia and Kentucky.

Mission

The RCC was established in 1975 exclusively for charitable and educational purposes and is an IRS 501(c)(3) corporation. As stated in the Member Handbook, the purposes of the organization are to:

  1. Provide a community choir in the Ravenna area for its residents to share and develop their vocal talents;
  2. Expose the Ravenna community to a variety of vocal music through quality performances, thereby enriching the quality of life in the Ravenna community;
  3. Share the goals of the choir with other communities through a touring program whenever financially possible;
  4. Offer this entertaining art form at a low admission fee.

RCC by-laws state that members must be adult (at least 18 years of age) or a high school senior, must participate in rehearsals and choir functions, and must begin attending by the third rehearsal of each session.

A membership welcome booklet (Adobe PDF) with additional information is available at this link.

How do I Join?

Rehearsals are held starting about 12 weeks before a scheduled concert date, at St. Paul Lutheran Church on North Freedom Street in Ravenna, Mondays at 7 p.m. Simply attend a rehearsal by the third rehearsal of the session. For more information contact Janis Harcar

Last updated 22-Aug-2023