Wareham High School adds a voice to joint choir

Wareham High School hosted a choir concert Saturday, Jan. 18 featuring not only Vikings but students from around the tri-county area.

The concert held was the annual Tri-County Choir Festival. The festival began with Wareham students singing two songs and Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School students singing two songs. The main event was the performance of a choir made up of five different high schools.

For over 20 years, high school choirs from Wareham, Dighton-Rehoboth, Bishop Stang High School, East Bridgewater High School and Mansfield High School have joined forces to form one choir for the festival.

This year, the joint 55 person choir performed in Wareham for the first time in the festival's history.

In order to prepare the five choirs to sing together, each group is given the music weeks in advance to prepare on their own. The groups then come together few days before the festival to rehearse.

Wareham Music Director Jason Roth said it was a challenge for the kids to get ready for the concert given the unique circumstance but he thought they performed well.

Wareham Senior Brendan Tremblay explained they got straight to work after their winter concert in December.

"We came in a little bit blind but the [guest] conductor really brought us all together and produced something awesome," said Tremblay.

Tremblay took a solo during the joint choir performance and described the experience as "exhilarating" and said there was "a lot of good chemistry."

"Usually I just block everything out and the music is my muse," said Tremblay.