SSC Community Voices Choruses Present Spring Concert

South Shore Conservatory’s SSC Community Voices and SSC Community Voices Too! present a spring concert on Sunday, May 17, 4 pm at South Shore Conservatory’s Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 Saint George Street, Duxbury. Both choruses are adult ensembles for individuals with developmental delays serving the South Shore area.

SSC Community Voices and SSC Community Voices Too! are non-auditioned choruses that provide joyful ensemble singing and performance opportunities to over 30 adults and young adults with developmental delays. Directed by Eve Montague and Amanda Goff, accompanied by Karen Ji, SSC Community Voices begins their seventh season this September. The popular Duxbury-based original ensemble prompted expansion to second Hingham-based group “Too!” in 2012, directed by Emily Browder Melville and Kari O’Briant, and accompanied by Jennifer Boyd. Both ensembles begin their next session in September and welcome new singers and peer mentors.

The concert features repertoire performing repertoire with a stage, film, and television theme. The program offers popular tunes including Fiddler On The Roof, The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Day By Day, and Can’t Help Falling In Love, Singing in the Rain, When You Wish Upon A Star, Do Re Mi and Happy.

The concert is free and open to the public. Audience members are invited to join the chorus members for a complimentary reception following the concert. For more information on SSC Community Voices Too! or South Shore Conservatory Music Therapy Programs, please contact Eve Montague, Director of Creative Arts Therapies, at 781-934-2731 ext. 20, email e.montague@sscmusic.org, or visit www.sscmusic.org.

About South Shore Conservatory

South Shore Conservatory, recently recognized as a national model for arts education by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, is celebrating nearly 45 years of enriching the lives of South Shore residents through music and the arts. SSC was founded as a not-for-profit community music school in 1970 and now has two beautiful campuses in Hingham and Duxbury. Currently serving over 3500 students of all ages and abilities, SSC is the largest community school for the arts in Massachusetts. Students participate in more than 50 diverse programs in music, dance and drama. Through innovative partnerships with social service agencies, SSC’s Creative Arts Therapies department supports the mental, emotional, and physical health of some of our community’s more fragile members. SSC’s Hingham campus is located at One Conservatory Drive, Hingham, 781-749-7565. SSC’s Duxbury campus is located at the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, 781-934-2731. South Shore Conservatory is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education. SSC programs are supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. For more information call us, follow us on Facebook or visit www.sscmusic.org.

In keeping with SSC’s inclusive mission to provide access to quality education in the arts for all, the Conservatory offers programs for all segments of the population to enjoy, regardless of age, ability, geography, and financial means. Furthermore, South Shore Conservatory admits students and families of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.