The faculty, staff and students of Ada High School, along with the parents, volunteers and officers of the Ada Music Boosters, are proud to host the 36th annual Ada Music Feast Show Choir Invitational Competition on Saturday, Nov. 9, at Ada High School. 

This year’s program will feature talented young men and women from 15 visiting show choirs from Ohio, as well as West Virginia and Indiana. Ada Varsity Singers, under the direction of Abigail Glenn, vocal music director and Jonathan Lischak, director of instrumental and co-director, will also provide an exhibition performance as the host school for this day-long event.

Ada Music Feast always draws a “standing room only” crowd and is one of the best attended and well run show choir competitions in the Midwest. The event will be held in the Ada High School Auditorium and the first group will take the stage at 8:00 a.m. 

Performances continue throughout the day with the daytime awards ceremony at 5:45 p.m. in the Ada varsity gymnasium. An evening “Finals Competition” for the six top-scoring groups during the daytime prelims will begin at 7:30 p.m.  The awards ceremony for the Finals Competition concludes the day at approximately 11 p.m. 

Spectators can expect to witness spectacular singing and dancing whether they attend a few performances or stay for the entire day. Master of Ceremony John Shuffle will welcome over 800 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 a minimum of two to three costume changes. Tickets ma be purchased at the door and are priced at $8 for adults ($5 for students K-12) for daytime competition. 

Evening finals performances are a separate admission charge which is $7 for adults and $4 for students. A combination pass can be purchased for both day and evening finals for $13 adults and $7 for students. 

This year’s performance schedule follows:
8 a.m. – Mayfield  
8:30 a.m. – Riverdale Soundsations
9 a.m. – Cory-Rawson Impressions
9:30 a.m. – Van Buren The Association
10 a.m. – Morning Break
10:15 a.m. – Kenton Top 20
10:45 a.m. – Wapakoneta Singsation
11:15 a.m. – Taylor Glitz & Glamour
11:45 a.m. – Grove City Touch of Class
12:15 p.m. – Lunch Break
1:15 p.m. – Crestview Knight Vision
1:45 p.m. – Piqua The Company
2:15 p.m. – Hurricane Red Hot
2:45 p.m. – Lebanon Singers
3:15 p.m. – Findlay First Edition
3:45 p.m. – Afternoon Break
4 p.m. – ETC All Americans
4:30 p.m. – Twinsburg Great Expectation
5 p.m. - Ada Varsity Singers

"Ada Music Feast is a much anticipated competition in the area and takes countless hours of planning and organizing. Over 2,400 people are expected to walk through the doors of Ada High School for this day-long event. It takes over 200 volunteers to make this event successful, said Beth Milks of the Boosters.  

"If you are looking for a way to give back to the music program and the amazing kids involved, please consider volunteering for a short time to help make this event the best it can be," she added.  Contact Milks at 419-204-7249 for more details.