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  Show Choir Community    Events    2019 Season    Maine State Show Choir Festival 2019


Event Info



March 29th-30th, 2019


Venue Info

Lawrence High School
Williamson Center Auditorium
9 School St
Fairfield, ME 04937

Phone: (207) 453-4200

Event Details

No. of Attending Choirs:

  10 Mixed Groups
  1 Treble Groups
  19 Middle School Groups

Hosts:

  MMEA

Judges: Unknown

Tickets

$5

Map



Maine State Show Choir Festival 2019









Awards
Predictions
Photos
Event Site
Live Stream



Finals
 

Groups in order of placement

 Show Choir
 Mt. Desert Island High School
First Place 
Best Choreography 
Outstanding Musicianship (Oriana Kelly) 
Gold Award 

 Voices Unlimited
 Hampden Academy
Second Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Jaden Clewley) 
Gold Award 


Finals - Tier II
 

Groups in order of placement

 Show Choir
 Orono High School
First Place 
Best Choreography 
Outstanding Musicianship (Nathan Manaker) 
Gold Award 

 Unified Harmony
 Stearns & Schenck Middle/High Schools
Second Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Bradley Duplisea) 
Gold Award 


Mixed Division - Tier I
 

Groups

 Show Choir
 Mt. Desert Island High School
First Place 
Best Choreography 
Outstanding Musicianship (Oriana Kelly) 
Gold Award 

 Voices Unlimited
 Hampden Academy
Second Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Jaden Clewley) 
Gold Award 

 Vocal Vibe
 Lawrence High School
Third Place 
Silver Award 

 Ascension
 Hampden Academy
4th Place 
Silver Award 

 Show Choir
 Nokomis Regional Middle/High School
5th Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Lia Herrick) 
Silver Award 

 Trojan Trebles
 Mt. Desert Island High School
6th Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Ava Twonbly) 
Bronze Award 


Mixed Division - Tier II
 

Groups

 Show Choir
 Orono High School
First Place 
Best Choreography 
Outstanding Musicianship (Nathan Manaker) 
Gold Award 

 Unified Harmony
 Stearns & Schenck Middle/High Schools
Second Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Bradley Duplisea) 
Gold Award 

 Show Choir
 Caribou High School
Third Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Austin LaPante) 
Bronze Award 

 Show Choir
 Ellsworth High School
4th Place 
Outstanding Musicianship (Kaitlyn McCullough) 
Bronze Award 
Time Pentalty 

 Show Choir
 Sumner Memorial High School
5th Place 
Honorable Mention 


Middle School Division - Tier I
 

Groups

 Riot Sound
 Orono Middle School
First Place 
Gold Award 

 Show Stoppers
 Conners Emerson School
Second Place 
Best Choreography 
Outstanding Musicianship (Soren Hopkins-Goff) 
Gold Award 

 Show Choir
 Reeds Brook Middle School
Third Place 

 Show Choir

 Winslow Junior High School
No Placement 

 Show Choir

 Warsaw Middle School
No Placement 

 Show Choir

 Caravel Middle School
No Placement 

 Show Choir

 Sebasticook Valley Middle School
No Placement 

 Show Choir

 Wagner Middle School
No Placement 

 Show Choir
 Ellsworth Middle School
No Placement 
Outstanding Musicianship (Caleb Leathers) 
Silver Award 

 Show Choir

 Caribou Middle School
No Placement 


Middle School Division - Tier II
 

Groups in order of performance

 Show Choir

 Medway Middle School
Placement Unknown 

 Show Choir

 Dr. Lewis S. Libby School
Placement Unknown 

 Show Choir

 Somerset Valley Middle School
Placement Unknown 

 Show Choir

 Sterns Junior High School
Placement Unknown 

 Show Choir

 Mountain View School
Placement Unknown 

 Show Choir
 Pemetic School
Placement Unkown 
Silver Award 

 Show Choir
 Peninsula School
Placement Unkown 
Outstanding Musicianship (Ainsley Alley) 
Outstanding Musicianship (Joshua Orellana-Kramer) 
Silver Award 

 Trentones
 Trenton School
Placement Unkown 
Silver Award 

 Show Choir
 Woodland School
Placement Unkown 
Silver Award 


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Jeff. on Jun 6, 2019, 4:24 PM
Post #1
+7
Hey y’all summer SCC folks still hanging out on here. Per usual during the “off season,” I spend some time doing show choir research and improving our archival efforts. Finally, I’m pleased to say we’ve grown our SCC database to now include Maine show choir! Show choir in Maine is not new – we’ve known they’ve been doing it for several years now, but they’re tucked up there in New England and are kind of isolated in that they do show choir in their own unique way.

Posted above is the performance schedule and results of their state show choir festival. It is operated through MMEA, split into two divisions based on school size, and at least for the high school divisions the top two made night show and performed again. As far as I can tell, full awards are posted for Saturday, the high school division, while the Friday middle school divisions have partial and incomplete results at this time. They awarded medals based on point ranges, outstanding musicianship awards – which I think are comparable to “best soloist” type awards, and then best choreography in addition to placements.

I watched all of the finalists shows and will include links below. There’s a ton of Maine show choir videos on YouTube. I also added a few videos and their songs to the choir profile pages. Feel free to explore:
MDI "Show Choir"
--their show was “Requiem.” Very artistic. Mt. Desert Island is, at least with my limited knowledge, one of the more prominent and historically successful choirs.
Hampden Academy "Voices Unlimited"
Orono "Show Choir"
--their theme was “Now That I’m Older.” Probably my favorite show. It’s a coming of age type show where they share stories and speak to their younger selves on topics like coming out as gay as well as battling an eating disorder.
Sterns & Schenck "Unified Harmony"
--Unified Harmony had a River theme with a lovely set. Their show was probably most consistent with the show choir we’re used to seeing on SCC. I thought they had the most developed choreography and their dramatic ending of Bottom of the River was cool.

Given how much the show choir community sometimes flips out with “traditional vs. theatrical” shows or "it's show CHOIR" (see Linn-Mar, Burroughs, etc.), some folks may be turned off by these videos or by what constitutes “show choir” in Maine. But the reality is -- there’s a lot of ways to do it. Maine may not use risers and uniform choreography maybe isn’t as emphasized (some of these Maine choirs are choreographed by students), but they sing and dance, use backdrops and set pieces, have 10-15 minute sets, utilize combos, and heck Orono HS even performed Wings and Hampden "Ascension" did Greatest Showman! That's about as mainstream show choir as it gets! I appreciate the artistic spin of this state culture of show choir and I’ll try to make sure we keep Maine represented now and in the future.

If any Maine folks stumble upon this, feel free to reach out to me! I’ve additionally sent some messages to MMEA in an effort to learn more and perhaps gather full and accurate historical records. Maine, to some degree, also has district festivals about a month before the state festival. There are like seven districts I think and I don’t have the full information yet about those, but this state festival is a start and at the very least something we can easily maintain moving forward.





Will. on Jun 6, 2019, 5:41 PM
Post #2
 
Thanks for all the new links for summer!




Caleb :P on Jun 7, 2019, 10:11 AM
Post #3
+3
Thank you Jeff for all the info! I find all of this quite fascinating—pockets of show choir existing all over the place but kind of self-contained. I wonder if there are other competitive show choir areas in the US that are in their own bubbles and we have yet to hear about!




idmjedi on Jun 7, 2019, 12:19 PM (Edited)
Post #4
+1
It’s awesome to hear and learn about even more New England show choir! Thank you for the info! It’s very interesting how they seem to use the bronze, silver, and gold system while also doing finals. It’s a fun combo of NE and Midwest awards and rankings




dominick. on Jun 18, 2019, 4:33 PM (Edited)
Post #5
+1
This is so true!! Also I've heard of show choirs existing in Argentina and Japan, so I imagine they have plenty of regional competitions and different styles in other countries as well!

I'm also going to reach out to some of these directors and personally invite them to some regional show choir competitions in Massachusetts and Connecticut. It would be so cool for them to see the show choir "down here" too





idmjedi on Jun 18, 2019, 4:52 PM
Post #6
 
That would be awesome! I want to see their different style of show choir as well.






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