FARMINGTON – A special concert being called “A Night of A Cappella Singing,” will be hosted by the Mt. Blue Voices vocal ensemble from Mt. Blue High School, on Friday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at Nordica Auditorium.

This event will feature three groups all singing in the a cappella style. That is, no instruments.

Performing with the Voices during the concert will be special guest, the Waterville High School Chamber Choir and local favorite, Northfield.

The concert will include unaccompanied works from the Renaissance to the sounds of today. The Mt. Blue Voices will sing a number of songs in their uniquely entertaining contemporary style. Director Dennis Hayes notes that a few new titles have been recently added to this year’s song list. The audience will even hear some a cappella Hip-Hop.

The Waterville student musicians will be bringing a repertoire that features a number of familiar titles in the traditional Doo-Wop style. Northfield is planning a preview of pieces being prepared for their upcoming spring concert season.

Dan Woodard, Northfield tenor, promises spring themed songs. Songs of the season, nature and love. He states, “You might say that we do the a cappella that was done before Doo-Wop but the subject matter has always been the same.”

Northfield is a group of eight friends who live and work in the Farmington area who love to sing early vocal music and Early American tunes. They have appeared at the Theater at Monmouth every summer and around Farmington during the Christmas season. They sing for the sheer joy of it and hope their audiences will find that joy to be contagious.

This is the first year of the Waterville Chamber Choir. The group follows in a long tradition of Waterville supporting a cappella vocal ensembles. Waterville chorus director, Sue Barre, is in her 13th year of public school teaching. Mrs.. Barre has been the guest clinician at various festivals and was named the 1996 Maine Music Educator of the year. She says that her students are very excited about coming to Farmington and singing in Nordica Auditorium, which is noted for its outstanding acoustics.

The 15 members of the Mt. Blue Voices make up on the premiere high school vocal ensembles in the state. The Voices are pleased to bring together these performing groups to share the sounds of a cappella. The concert is free and is programmed to last approximately one hour.