The summer of 2013 is likely to be one that many students at Northwestern High School will long remember.
If all goes as planned, about 50 teens and seven chaperones will spend part of their summer having a musical and cultural experience in a land far away.
The teens are members of the Northwestern High School Choir in Hyattsville that will be traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa, for the Ihlombe Choral Festival in July. They are scheduled to perform in five concerts in Johannesburg, Soweto, Capetown and Pretoria.
“It’s just so very important for the kids,” said Leona Lowery, the choir’s artistic director, adding that the trip will give the teens a unique global education.
The invitation-only festival showcases choral groups from around the world. According to the festival’s website, confirmed participants for the 2013 festival include a high school group from Trinidad and Tobago, the Toronto Children’s Chorus from Canada and Women of Note, an Australian group. Lowery said Northwestern is the only American school participating.
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