Registration under way for children’s sacred summer music camp

Kilgore

College will hold a children’s sacred music camp, “The Music Machine at

KC,” Aug. 8-13, on the Kilgore campus.  The camp is open to children

who have completed kindergarten through fifth grade. 

Early registration will run through July 1.

Hosted

by the Kilgore College Music Department and sponsored by the Kilgore

Ministerial Alliance, the camp is set for 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday

through Friday, Aug. 8-13. 

The

camp will conclude at 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 13, with a final

children’s performance in Van Cliburn Auditorium on the Kilgore campus. 

The performance is free and open to the public.

Cost

of the camp is $100 per child. The registration fee includes all camp

materials, supplies and daily lunch. There is a discount of $10 for each

additional child who registers from the same family. 

Late registration is set for July 2-31 for $125 per student, and the camp is limited to 50 students.

To register by mail, visit www.kilgore.edu/summercamps2010.asp, download the registration form and mail the completed form and a check or money order to the address shown.

The camp will offer classes on hymn study and traditional Christmas carols while also preparing a sacred children’s musical.

Jeanne

Johnson, KC’s chair of music and dance, will serve as director of the

camp, and Kimberly Earnhardt Lee will serve as music director.  James

Vermillion, music director at Kilgore’s St. Luke’s United Methodist

Church, will serve as the camp’s director of hymns and carols.

For more information about The Music Machine at KC, call Renee Golden, administrative assistant, at (903) 983-8146 or e-mail Johnson: Jeannej@kilgore.edu.