Record number of choirs joins AHS' Royal Aviation event
Alliance High School’s Jetsetters celebrated its 10th year as a competition show choir during the recent Royal Aviation Show Choir Competition.
The group performed an exhibition during the Feb. 25 event, which also included a special performance by Alliance Middle School’s Show Choir.
Thirteen show choirs from Ohio and West Virginia competed in the Carnation City event.
While the Jetsetters have been around for many years, it wasn’t until 2013, under the guidance of Director Carrie Chunat, that the group began performing. Over the past 10 years, they have attended 40 competitions and brought home 45 trophies.
“It’s amazing to come full circle,” said Chunat. “We are only competing now because 10 years ago a competition in Twinsburg invited us to attend for the first time. The Alliance kids were amazed by what they saw, and decided to jump in head first to the world of competitive show choir.”
The Alliance Middle School Show Choir and the Jetsetters – unable to compete as the host school – completed an exhibition performance that included Melodica from Lakeside High School.
Top honors
At this year’s competition, dozens of individual awards were given out, but as a group, each choir competed for the chance to be named the Grand Champion. Awards went to:
Grand Champion – Kaleidoscope from Musselman High School
First Runner Up – Kenton High School’s Top Twenty
Second Runner Up – Varsity Chorale from Euclid High School
Third Runner Up – Royal Harmony from North Royalton High School
Fourth Runner Up – Music Company from River Valley High School
This article originally appeared on The Alliance Review: Record number of choirs joins AHS' Royal Aviation event
