The Festival By the Sea music festivals, begun in 2000, grew out of a need to provide high-quality music festivals for Cooperative Baptist Fellowship churches. This has grown into an ecumenical series of festivals encompassing Youth Choirs and Adult Choirs. Noted clinicians provide leadership for the festivals helping participating choirs achieve levels of performance not normally attained in the local church setting. Choirs leave challenged to work harder and strive for greater achievement in their local music programs. One of the hallmark features of these festivals has been the deeply spiritual worship experiences that have been designed to coincide with the music that has been prepared for the festivals. Not only do participants learn to sing but they learn to integrate their music into a worship framework that has meaning – engaging the heart, mind, and spirit. Additionally, the festivals have provided an opportunity for participants to meet others with similar music interests and build relationships that will last for years to come.
January 27-28, 2023
Emily Burch, Guest Director
Location: First Baptist Church, Charleston, SC
Registration Information
January 27-28, 2023
First Baptist Church, Charleston, SC
Schedule
Friday
8:30-10:00pm rehearsal
Saturday
9:30-12:30am rehearsal
12:30pm -1:30 lunch (included with registration; on site)
1:30-3:00 rehearsal
3:30 worship
How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place, Brahms, Hinshaw, HMC-761
For this Joy, LaBarr, Walton Music, WW1917
Come Thou Fount, Wilberg, Oxford, 0193860600
Ubi Caritas, V. Johnson, Choristers Guild, CGE64
Total Praise, Smallwood, arr. Barnett/Rao, Boosey & Hawkes, 10280032
Let Everything That Has Breath, Ames, Earthsongs
Singers not associated with a choir may contact Mark Kemp (mkempwpc@gmail.com) for help acquiring music.
March 3-5, 2023
Kingston Plantation (Brighton Tower)
9800 Queensway Blvd
Myrtle Beach, SC 29572
Lodging
Reservations must be made before Friday, January 27, 2023. Here is our group’s Personalized Booking Link.
Reservations may also be made by calling the reservations line at 800-876-0010.
Please give the group code (FBS), in order to obtain the group rate for the accommodations.
You may also go online to www.kingstonresorts.com. Again, you will need to use the group code (FBS) to receive the group rate.
Schedule
Friday
7:30pm-9:00pm – Check-In and Registration (Palladium Foyer, Brighton Tower)
9:00pm-10:30pm – Rehearsal [Palladium Ballroom]
Saturday
9:00am-12:30pm (with break) – Rehearsal
8:30pm-10:30pm – Rehearsal
Sunday
9:00am-9:30am – Rehearsal
9:30am-10:45am – Worship Service
11:00am – Check-Out
More details coming soon!
Come Before the Table – Karen Marrolli
Duet or Semi-Chorus, SATB with Hand Drum (MSM 50-6161)
Reproducible Hand Drum part available separately: MSM 50-6161A
https://www.morningstarmusic.com/come-before-the-table.html
I Choose Love – Mark Miller (CGA1491)
SATB with Vocal Solo
https://www.choristersguild.org/store/cga1491-i-choose-love-satb-1/6974/
Let the River Run – Carly Simon/Arr. Craig Hella Johnson
SATB (HL 08754596)
https://www.halleonard.com/product/8754596/let-the-river-run
Alleluia – William Boyce
SATB
Free Download on CPDL: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/f/fa/Boyce_-_Alleluia.pdf
Justice Choir Songbook (Two Selections)
Free Download: https://www.justicechoir.org/songbook/
• Love is Love is Love is Love (#18) – Abbie Betinis
Canon in 3 or 4 Parts
• One Foot/Lead with Love (#22) – Melanie DeMore
Call and Response with Refrain
Who Will Roll Away the Stone? – Anna Abernathy
SSAA, Free Download: https://annaabernathy.com/current-scores