Mountaire Farms is excited to extend an invitation to all choirs on Delmarva to participate in the 3^rd Annual Mountaire Communion of Choirs Competition, which will take place at Trinity United Methodist Church in Salisbury, MD on April 29, 30 & May 1.  This three day event is designed to highlight and honor Delmarva choirs in a spiritually-competitive format, where the most outstanding performances are rewarded with cash prizes.  The church choirs judged to be in the top 6 receive cash prizes ranging from $5,000 for first place down to $500 for 6^th place.

This past December, members of the competing Communion of Choirs were invited to form a combined choir to accompany Sandi Patty at the opening performance of her national Christmas Season concert tour in Georgetown, Delaware. It was an exciting and rewarding event and we expect to provide our contestants the opportunity to participate in other combined choral programs during the coming year.  For highlights of our combined Communion of Choirs performing with Sandi Patty click here.

We’d love to have your choir participate this year to share the praises of our Lord Jesus Christ in words and music. To enter please fill print out an application form and mail it in on or before the March 26^th deadline.  Please take note of our specific requirements as those not meeting those requirements will not be accepted.  Choirs must consist of a minimum of 12 adults, but not exceed 60.  Trinity United Methodist Church will provide drums, a bass amp, a guitar amp, piano, electric piano and pipe organ in order to ease travel arrangements on all choirs and eliminate long set-up times.  Performance slots are filled on a first come, first serve basis, so please get your applications in early in order to secure your preferred date.

Once we receive your application you will be sent an information packet on the event or for more information before you apply click here.

If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail Phyllis Oldham at pboldham@comcast.net

Open to all Church Choirs in the Delmarva region (Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia).   Cash prizes are awarded:  1st - $5,000; 2nd - $4,000; 3rd - $3,000; 4th - $2,000; 5th - $1,000 and 6th - $500.  


Highlights from the Second Annual Communion of Choirs (2009)
Competition Hailed a Huge Success

The Second Annual Mountaire Communion of Choirs choral competition was held April 16-17-18 at Trinity United Methodist Church, Salisbury, Maryland. Two thousand spectators were on hand during the three day event to witness twenty-five choirs ranging in size from a minimum of 22 members to 69 participants. They sang from the sanctuary risers and arrived from all walks of the Delmarva Peninsula to compete for the following prizes and the right to sing the praises of our Lord Jesus Christ in words and music.

The Winners are:

           

First Place: Trinity United Methodist Church, Salisbury, MD, $5,000

Second Place: Asbury Festival Choir, Salisbury, MD. $ 4,000

Third Place: Calvary Baptist Church, Dover, DE $3,000

Fourth Place: Wicomico Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, MD, $2,000

Fifth Place: Crossroads Church of God, Fruitland, MD, $1,000

Sixth Place: Central Mennonite Church, Dover, DE, $500

An exciting special award was donated from a drawing to the winning church among all of the choirs contesting. Members of The Wicomico Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, were the lucky winners as they drew the winning ticket: and were awarded a one thousand dollar portable digital piano with extra equipment, supplied in a partnership by Mountaire Farms and the piano and organ expert company; Keyboard America from Lewes, Delaware.