Registration Information

Are you ready for VCCF 2026? Pre-registration via Google Form is now open and will close October 3, 2025. Please complete the pre-registration form HERE to reflect a commitment from your school (with approval from your administration) and the number of students. Registration is limited to 15 students (grades 4-6) per OAKE member, and space is limited to the first 170 participants. Please be as close as possible to actual numbers of interested and qualifying students as possible to prevent unnecessary waitlisting or exclusion of other schools. Once the 170 limit is reached, schools will be placed on a wait list. Schools placed in the wait list will find out on October 22, 2025 if there is space in the festival for them.

REGISTRATION MATERIALS INCLUDING STUDENT REGISTRATION FORMS AND PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 19, 2025. These materials will be sent to directors once pre-registration is received. If a pre-registered school is not able to honor this timeline, registration will be opened to any waitlisted schools on October 22.

The VCCF 2026 registration fee is $60 per student. Additional cost compared to previous years reflects the increased expense of facilities and personnel needed to provide a quality experience for singers. Once registered, fees are nonrefundable for any reason including illness, change of schedule, and weather-related cancellations. The building being used for this event is a Prince William County Public School. Though the weather has never completely canceled our event, we will follow PWCS cancellations and/or delays. Any festival weekend schedule adjustments will be communicated to directors via text and email.

Choral octavos and a link to rehearsal tracks will be sent to your school once your completed student registration form and a single check has been received. All choral octavos will be provided by VOKE and must be returned in good condition at the rehearsal on Saturday, January 17. Teachers will be held financially accountable for lost or damaged music. Below is a list of the VCCF 2026 repertoire:

1. Dance of the Willow Victoria Ebel-Sabo; 2-part (BriLee Music Publishing Company)
2. Tailor of Gloucester Cyndee Giebler, arr.; 2-part (Colla Voce Music, Inc.)
3. Vuela Carlos Cordero (sing in unison) (Carlos Cordero and the Happy Choir, Inc.)
4. Sesere Eeye Torres Strait Islands Traditional Song, Mark O’Leary, arr.; easy SSA (Mark O'Leary Music Publishing Co.)
5. Turn the World Around Harry Belefonte & Freedman/Hayes, arr.; 2-part (Shawnee Press)
6. How Can I Keep from Singing? Ginger Littleton, arr.; Unison (BriLee Music Publishing Company)

We are incredibly excited to work with this year’s wonderful group of students! We can’t wait to provide you and them with the best musical experience possible. Please let us know if you have any questions!

Sincerely,

Michelle McCarten & Veronica Kennedy

VCCF 2026 Co-Chairs, Virginia Organization of Kodaly Educators

2026 VCCF Repertoire

Dance of the Willow
Ebel-Sabo
2-part
BriLee Music

Tailor of Gloucester
arr. Geibler
2-part
Colla Voce Music

Vuela Carlos
Codero
Unison
Carlos Cordero

Sesere Eeye
Torres Strait Islands Traditional Song
SSA
Mark O'Leary Music

Turn the World Around
Belafonte
arr. Freedman/Hayes
2-part
Shawnee Press

How Can I Keep From Singing
arr. Littleton
Unison
Brilee Music

About Our Clinician

Georgia A Newlin, DMA is an independent Music Education Consultant. She has taught in early childhood and public school music positions for sixteen years and at the collegiate level for eighteen.

Currently, she is called upon as a conductor for choral festivals, as a clinician for choral workshops, reading sessions, and intermediate grade methodology, as well as a consultant for curriculum planning. She teaches musicianship, conducting, and ensemble in Kodály programs at Indiana University, University of Hawai’i, and Southern Methodist University, as well as the new LUCKE program in Las Vegas (beginning 2025).

Georgia is Past President of the Organization of American Kodály Educators and is a member of The VoiceCare Network. She has presented at conferences of the Organization of American Kodály Society, International Kodály Society, American Orff-Schulwerk Association, Kodály Music Educators in Australia, and Kodály Society of Ontario, as well as Choral & Music Education associations in California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia.

Date and Location

Woodbridge High School
3001 Old Bridge Rd.,
Woodbridge, VA 22192


Contacts
Michelle McMarten
Sarah Riechers

Saturday, January 17
10am-3pm

Sunday, January 18
Rehearsal at 2pm;
Concert at 5pm