Celebration Choir

Our Mission

 

The Celebration Choir performs many service oriented concerts and liturgies at Notre Dame. Music is wide-ranging from classical hymns and traditional liturgical music to gospel/spirituals and contemporary Catholic repertoire, incorporating strings, flute, guitar, the Irish bodhran, organ, piano and the African djembe. Our goal is to inspire assemblies to participate "with full heart and voice" through prayerful yet joy-filled music. In the fall semester, the choir will lead music for Mass in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center 30 minutes after each home football game.

The Celebration Choir also serves as an important training ground for future liturgical musicians, and for current musicians serving the various dorm communities on campus. This year, the choir will be integrating music from the new "Newman Hymnal" which will be distributed across campus this fall.

In addition, the choir has a wide-ranging ministry in the South Bend community, including visits to homeless shelters, juvenile detention centers and visits to the elderly. In the spring semester, in addition to singing for liturgies on campus, the choir will sing with other combined choirs and the N.D. Symphony Orchestra for Junior Parents Weekend, join with other campus choirs for an Interfaith Christian Prayer and Music Celebration, enjoy a weekend tour to Chicago/Wisconsin, sing a live televised mass for the Fort Wayne/South Bend Diocese, and present a Basilica concert.