Ravenna Community Choir (RCC) is an active group of citizens from Ravenna, Ohio, and surrounding communities, under the direction of Janis Harcar, and accompanied by Rick DeMattia. Our membership consists of people ranging in age from 18 to 90 from various religions and walks of life. Since the choir was founded in 1975, we have provided at least three major concerts each year for our community. I
ncluded in our repertoire is a varied mixture of sacred and secular music. We have performed classical sacred music as well as traditional hymns, inspiring spirituals and contemporary cantatas. Much of our sacred music comes from today's most prolific sacred music composers including Mary McDonald, Joseph M. Martin, Pepper Choplin and Mark Hayes. Our secular music has included some rousing patriotic numbers, beautiful folk songs from our country's past, popular show tunes and an occasional number from America's contemporary rock composers. In addition to our three major hometown performances each year, the Ravenna Community Choir also travels as often as it can raise the money to do so. Beginning with a trip to Washington, D.C., to represent Ravenna during our bicentennial celebration in 1976, the choir continued to take its show on the road by performing in Indiana; Pennsylvania; Toronto, Ontario; New York; Tennessee; Michigan; Maine; North Carolina; Massachusetts; Missouri; West Virginia and Kentucky.
