Way to go, Green Bay East! I know it's been a minute since you've broken down the finals wall, and I'm so proud of you!!!! Well done guys. Much love, Damon
There is such a rich history of show choir competitions in DePere dating back to the 70s. It is beyond cool that DePere continues to be a “destination” the first weekend in February with DePere High School carrying the mantle. It is especially heartening to see the schools that attended DePere competitions in the past return: Sauk, Neenah, Preble, Holmen, GB East, New London, and others to reappear on the performance rosters giving opportunity to NE Wisconsin schools to share their music and shine on a cold winter day in Wisconsin (complete with Jonathan Ulrich on the judge’s panel)! This amateur Wisconsin show choir historian is delighted to see this thread continue. Long live.
I think you'll be happy to hear that Mr. Vine did make it out to watch some shows yesterday. It truly was a full-circle moment for a lot of people yesterday
Adjudicators for yesterday were:
Sarah Parks (vocal)
Kathryn Skemp Moran (vocal)
Jonathan Ulrich (visual)
Greg Pragel (visual)
Matt Endres (band)
Jennifer Gulsvig (critique)
Andrew Cao (critique)
Anita Cracauer (band critique)
Evan Marlowe (band critique)
Raquel Lopez (middle school critique)
Finalists (perf order):
New London
Neenah
GB East
Hamilton
Preble
Sauk
Best Crew: Southwest
Spirit Award: New London
Best Male Soloist: Nick Mitchell, Synergy
Best Female Soloist: Malia Niessen, Exec
Best Costumes: Preble Center Stage
People’s Choice: New London
Best Band: ??? (Missed it)
Sorry for the confusion. The womens division times switched up. With the craziness of competition day, we weren’t able to update the website or showchoir.com. Other than the womens division times this morning, all the times are still accurate.
The schedule on this page is NOT the schedule that the event is following. We found out the hard way. We relied on this schedule, but at the event they have a completely different schedule that they are working from. We missed our daughter’s performance because the schedule at the event had her school an hour earlier than this schedule.
The schedule we have posted above is the same schedule posted on De Pere's website. Ultimately, things change on the day of the event and you have to be flexible and grant grace. That's showbiz. Putting on an event of this scale amidst a pandemic, winter storms, and various other factors is no small feat. If it is any consolation, it appears that De Pere's live stream is a YouTube stream that allows you to rewind.
Jeff, the vibe of your comment makes me think that you missed the point.
The ONLY thing that matters at this point is that other parents don't rely on this schedule, and don't miss their child's performance. That's it.
Posting a schedule sets expectations - at least roughly.
Moving a team up by an hour means that parents like me miss performances.
I'll briefly comment on a few other things you said. I am not doing this to be argumentative, but I want to let you know why some of the deflections and excuses are not relevant.
First, if this schedule is copied and pasted from De Pere's website doesn't make it better, it just means it's wrong in two places.
I have no idea why you brought up winter storms , there is no storm here.
Last, we are 2 years into the pandemic, and we are all used to dealing with it now. It had no discernable effect at the event, other than about half the people wore masks.
The vibe of your comments make me think you may be new to show choir. It appears there was a late change to the De Pere schedule. This change was that Sauk Prairie YTBN and Holmen Midwest Magic were each pushed back a half hour and Preble Rendezvous was moved up an hour. The performance times for the other 15 participating choirs remained the same. This actually happens relatively often in the show choir world, so welcome to the fun we have in tracking it all down! Contrary to popular belief, we do not have showchoir.com Staff on the ground at every show choir event happening nationwide (there are 21! this weekend alone). Perhaps your director/student could've relayed this information to you? Surely they were aware of the time change, although I'm sure completely busy in prepping for their new performance time. This kind of stuff happens. Wish you well in catching your choir's future performances.
Anyone know how to get to there live stream cuz it takes me to there's Facebook page and there website has the link but that takes me right back to there Facebook page.???????????
Middle School Division (might be exhibition, might not, schedule doesn't say)
9:30 Leonardo Da Vinci School for Gifted Learners "Dynamix"
11:45 De Pere MS "Rockin' Redbirds"
12:15 Red Smith "Sussex Street Swing"
Mixed Division
12:45 New London "Vision"
1:15 Plymouth "Momentum"
1:45 Parkview "Pizzaz"
2:30 Green Bay Southwest "Spotlight Singers"
3:00 Neenah "Vintage"
3:30 Green Bay East "Rhapsody in Red"
4:00 Hamilton "Synergy"
4:30 Preble "Center Stage"
5:00 Sauk Prairie "Executive Session"
5:30 Holmen "Midwest Express"
6:00 De Pere "Chicago Street Singers" exhibition/awards to follow
7:30-10:00 Finals (I believe six finalists but the schedule doesn't say)
10:00 De Pere "Jam Session" exhibition/awards to follow
De Pere Destination De Pere: Let's Jam! 2022
