The 41st annual Ada Music Feast show choir invitational competition will be held all day on Saturday, Nov. 3, at the school.

This year’s program will feature students from nine show choirs from Ohio and Michigan.  The Ada Varsity Singers, under the direction of Scott Henning, vocal music director, and Jonathan Lischak, director of instrumental music, will provide an exhibition performance as the host school.

The event will be held in the high school auditorium with the first group taking the stage at 8:30 a.m.  Performances continue throughout the day with the daytime awards ceremony at 2:30 p.m. in the gymnasium.

An evening finals competition will begin at 5 p.m. with the awards ceremony for that competition set for 8:15 p.m.

John Shuffle, who has been emcee for 16 years, will welcome the singer/ dancers, instrumentalists and stage crew members to the contest.  Each show choir performs a set of songs between 15-20 minutes in length and will traditionally have two or three costume changes.  

Tickets may purchased at the door at $12 for adults, $8 for seniors, and $5 for students.

There is a separate charge for the evening finals performances. Tickets are $10 for adults, $7 for seniors,$5 for students.  

A combination pass may be purchased for both daytime competition and evening finals for $20 for adults and $10 for seniors or students.  

Here is this year’s schedule of performances:

8:30 a.m. - Riverdale​
9:00 a.m. – River Valley
9:30 a.m. - Kenton
10:00 a.m. – Alliance
11:00 a.m. - South Dearborn
11:30 a.m. – Piqua
12:00 p.m. - Teays Valley
12:30 p.m. - Strongsville
1:00 p.m. - Ada (free to the Ada community)
1:30 p.m. – Findlay

More than 2,000 spectators, performers, and volunteers attend annually. About 300 volunteers help throughout the day.  To volunteer visit the Ada Music Booster website, www.adamusicboosters.org and click on the Music Feast page.  

Members of the community may attend Ada’s exhibition performance free of charge at 1 p.m.