Holiday in the Park, the annual holiday musical event sponsored by National Park Community College and the Fun City Chorus, will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Horner Hall of the Hot Springs Convention Center.
Admission to the event is a non-perishable food item. The host will be meteorologist Ned Perme.
Music students from Garland County schools will be the featured performers in the evening concert along with Perme. The NPCC Singers and Soundwaves, under the direction of NPCC choral director Denise Edds, will perform, as will the Fun City Chorus of Hot Springs under the direction of Steve Spakes.
Participating school choirs and their directors are Langston Aerospace and Environmental Magnet School, Angelique Ziegler, director; Lake Hamilton Intermediate School fourth- and fifth-grade choirs, director Paul Graves; Hot Springs Middle School, director Tina McGrew; Mountain Pine, director Barbara Herron; Lake Hamilton Elementary School, director Katherine Combs; Cutter Morning Star Schools, director Jill Williams; Jessieville High School choir, director Lydia de Sambourg; and Fountain Lake High School, director Mary Shapiro.
The NPCC Medical Professions high school students have chosen the event for their service project. These students have been collecting non-perishable food items throughout Hot Springs. The food will be donated to Potter's Clay, Jackson House and Samaritan Ministries of Hot Springs.
Edds has coordinated the event each year since its inception in 1999.
"Holiday in the Park has grown every year since its beginning," Edds said. "Last year there were over 1,200 people in attendance, 200 area school students singing in the massed choir and over 4,000 pounds of non-perishable food distributed."
School on 12/14/2014