Messiah Sing Along

Previous Performance
First Presbyterian Church, Ottumwa
6:00 PM, December 12, 2021

After the significant challenges faced by all performance groups due to the long-lasting aftereffects of the impact of COVID-19, OACC made a conscious decision to try and find a way to breathe new life back into our two community choruses.  The decision was made to invite singers from Ottumwa and Southeast Iowa to join with OACC in order to perform a “Messiah Sing Along”, as an excellent way to accomplish this critically important goal, both for the OACC and for the other choirs from which many of the singers came.  

Singers from six different choruses in southeast Iowa joined with the Ottumwa Area Community Chorus singers when Dr. Christine Bergan, the OACC director, invited one and all to come together for a unique holiday event opportunity, a “Messiah Sing Along”.  Singers who participated in what grew to become a 48-member chorus came from the Ottumwa Area Community Chorus (who hosted the event), the Indian Hills Community College Choir, the Ottumwa High School Meistersingers, the Iowa Wesleyan Chorale (from Iowa Wesleyan University), the Mt. Pleasant Chorale, and the First Presbyterian Church Choir.