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Choir Boosters of Stoughton Schools
2364 Jackson St
#215
Stoughton, WI 53589
Phone: 608/347–3943
Contact Name: Jessica Royko
Choir Boosters President
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| 2026 SHS Concert Choir Trip to Carnegie Hall - 2025 |
Amount Funded: $3,000.00 |
| This tour will take place over Spring Break 2026. Students will travel via coach bus, share rooms in a hotel in Mid-town Manhattan. Chaperones will be present and will pay their own way. While in NYC, the students will see one or two Broadway musicals; visit numerous historic and tourist sites, including the Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island, WTC/9/11 Memorial, Times Square; and of course take the stage at Carnegie Hall performing for their family, friends, and general audiences. They will prepare music for months in class, and spend several hours in rehearsal while in Manhattan. This is an amazingly empowering experience, and having personally gone on the tour three years ago, I can say the students come home more mature with a broadened perspective of the country and a stronger sense their own abilities to navigate and impact the world around them. |
| This grant will support the SHS Concert Choir on their trip to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall. Every three years choir students are invited to take this amazing trip over spring break. This staggered timing ensures that all choir students will have the opportunity during their time in the Stoughton High School Choir Program to go once. This year there will be approximately 34 students invited to attend. The projected cost will be $1800 per head which amounts to $61200. The bus and driver alone costs $11300, and the price to attend one Broadway show is $7500. It’s an amazingly empowering and often lifechanging experience for these students to leave the Midwest, visit one of the great cities in the world, and perform on one of the most famous stages anywhere. Choir Boosters wants to make this tour as financially approachable as possible for ALL students who are eligible to go. With the prices of groceries and everything else right now, we predict that this tour could present a hardship for families, and we don’t want anyone to have to forgo the opportunity. Student fund raising opportunities do exist and many have been fundraising in preparation for three years, but Boosters would like to help offset the costs of the tour through our own fundraising, and this grant application. |
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