Registration Information

Are you ready for VCCF 2026? Pre-registration via Google Form opens September 1, 2025 and will close October 1, 2025. Please complete the pre-registration form 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 VOKE 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 21, 2024 if there is space in the festival for them. Access the Google form for pre-registration below.

REGISTRATION MATERIALS INCLUDING STUDENT REGISTRATION FORMS AND PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN OCTOBER 18, 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 21.

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 public school building belonging to Prince William County Public Schools. 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 single school check has been received. All choral octavos will be provided by VOKE and must be returned in good condition at the rehearsal on Sunday, January 18th. Teachers will be held financially accountable for lost or damaged music.

You may download this information and the repertoire list in the link section below.

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.