Bonclarken Music Conference will be held July 12-17, 2020.
Welcome to the 2020 Bonclarken Music Conference! We are excited about another great summer ahead! We are even more excited to provide another wonderful week of top-quality clinicians, worship, music, fellowship and fun! We would love for you to consider bringing your choir, sending your church choir director, children’s choir directors, organist, pianist and anyone who has an interest in music and worship.
We would really like to see as many youth, middle school and all ages of children in addition to many adults at the conference this summer.
Our Clinicians this summer are:
Adult Choir: Dr. Shannon Jeffreys – Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Youth Choir: Todd Arant – Apex United Methodist Church, Apex, NC
Middle School Choir: Victor C. Johnson, Composer and Church Musician, Dallas, TX
Junior Choir: Elizabeth Shepley, Northfield, MN
Primary and Cherub Choirs: Susan Eernisse, First Baptist Church, Carollton, GA
We will enjoy leadership during the week in crafts by Heidi Shealy, of Lexington, SC, and our minister for the week will be Rev. Clint Davis, from Chester ARP Church. Clint will also be our Devotions Leader at the Nibble Nook each night for our middle school and youth choirs. Our organist will be David Jennings, Organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Gastonia and still a member at First ARP Church Gastonia. Sarah Dagenhart, First ARP Church, Rock Hill, SC, will be our Children’s Church Devotional Leader, and David Hooks, First ARP Church, Gastonia, NC, will lead music at both Children’s Church and the Nibble Nook in the evenings. Brady Hanes, Centennial ARP Church, Columbia, SC, will lead our recreation. Brady and David will lead our great evening night activities.
This week will feature reading sessions, interest sessions and voice and organ classes. Kristen Wunderlich, from Winthrop University, will be our Voice Instructor. We will also have organ and worship workshops. There will be informational and insightful workshops by composers as well as others on helpful topics.
Evening activities will include a special concert on Monday night. We will have our annual talent show on Tuesday night, and the Youth and Middle School Choirs will have a pool party while the children have their traditional Carnival on Wednesday evening.
We hope you will join us this summer for what we think will be an incredible week. Our theme of the week is: “A Fruitful Life: Fruit of the Spirit.” Our music in all of our choirs and our worship themes each day will be centered on this theme.
Lynn Grimsley, Norma Jean Huffstetler, and I are truly blessed to serve our denomination in this yearly ministry. We hope to see you at the 2020 Bonclarken Music Conference this summer for a great week!
Click here to download the registration booklet.
Trip McGill