Hey all! We hope your April has been going swimmingly so far! Our last show of the year, the Final Blast is quickly approaching and we had some information to pass along to you to help get things on the schedule! Just in case it doesn’t make it’s way home with your daughter/son tonight, a copy of the letter can be found below:

Dear Choir Parents,

We are quickly headed towards our final concert of the year! The Final Blast will take place on Saturday, May 9th at 6:30pm. This year we will be hitting the stage in a musical way as the choirs take on the music of Broadway!

Tech Rehearsal for students with special roles will be Tuesday, May 5th until 5:45 at the NHS Auditorium. This rehearsal is only for students who will be performing a solo, duet, or dance number in the show. Pickup will be at Door 23 for all students.

Dress Rehearsal will take place on the following Thursday, May 7th at the NHS Auditorium until 5:45. (Knight Lights will rehearse until 6:15) The pickups for the different grade levels will be: 6th Grade: Door 23 (by pool/MAC parking lot); 7th Grade: Door 1 (front parking lot across from the football field); and 8th Grade: Door 27 (Band side parking lot). Knight Lights will be picked up at Door 23 after their rehearsal finishes.

Tickets will go on sale Monday, May 4th and can be purchased in classes by the students, at the NMS front office, or at the door on the day of the concert. Due to longer than expected lines at the Christmas Concert, we will be having additional box office volunteers, but recommend getting your tickets in advance if at all possible. Tickets will be $3 for the show (5 and under get in free).

Finally, we will be reaching out to volunteers within the next week with pertinent information, but we still have a few open positions where we could use some additional volunteers. If you could take a look and see if there might be something you could help out with, it would be greatly appreciated and help the show go off without a hitch! Here are what we are still looking for:

6th Grade: Dress Rehearsal Chaperones (2-3), Concert Chaperones (3), Concert Ushers (2-4)

7th Grade: Dress Rehearsal Chaperones (3-4), Concert Chaperones (1), Concert Ushers (2-4)

8th Grade: Dress Rehearsal Chaperones (1-2), Concert Chaperones (1), Concert Ushers (2-4)

All Grades: Box Office (2-3), Tear Down Crew (Any available hands afterwards would be appreciated)

Can’t wait for them to hit the stage for one last amazing performance to round out the year! Hope to see you there! Thanks all!

-Mr. Maura and Mr. Norwood

Hey all!

If you are a parent of an 8th grade choir student who is thinking/planning on being a part of the Northridge High School choir program next year, the MMPA (Middlebury Music Parents Association) asked us to pass along an invitation to you all for the upcoming meeting tomorrow night (April 14th, 5:30-6:30 in the NHS Auditorium). There will be information shared about upcoming fundraising opportunities (for the current year and next year) as well as the Summer Ice Breaker for the 2026-2027 SL/NL show choir groups.

Sorry for the late notice, but hopefully some of you will be able to make it out! *They also mentioned that parents of 6th/7th grade choir students were also more than welcome to join as well if they wanted to see what high school show choir was all about.;)

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter/Spring Break! Thanks all!

As we’re gearing up for our Northridge Choral Invitational this Saturday, the high school wanted me to pass along that there are still several volunteer slots available/needing to be filled to help the day go off without a hitch! If you are thinking of attending and could take a glance at some of those opportunities to see if there might be anything that you might be able to help out with, it would be greatly appreciated! (*just remember to avoid the 11:30ish timeslot so you can catch the Knight Lights performance!😉)

Link to 2026 NCI Volunteer Sign-Up

Thanks all and hopefully see you there!

Our NMS Choir Beasts have been hitting the performances hard this weekend! To start, the members of the Knight Lights show choir traveled to Carroll this past weekend for their first competitive performance of the year. Going up against 8 other groups from all over the state, the Knight Lights put on an awesome performance taking 2nd Runner-Up out of 9, with 8^th Grader, Corban Hershberger receiving the Best Performer award for the group as well! If you weren’t able to make it down for the fun-filled evening, you can find the recording of last night’s livestream here (KL performance starts around 3:46:00). They take the stage again next week at the Homestead Classic Showcase (Friday, Feb. 13th @8:55pm). Huge congrats to the Knight Lights on their fantastic first performance!

But wait, there’s more!

27 brave beasts from grades 6-8 also traveled out to Fairfield Jr/Sr High on Saturday for the ISSMA Solo and Ensemble Contest. Out of our 27 Middle School Choir Students who took a solo, 25 of them received a gold rating (highest possible rating)! On top of that, we also had 7 from among those 25 students who also earned a perfect score from their judges along with their gold rating! Mr. Maura and I could not be prouder of all of these kids and the hard work and practice they put into these performances! Awesome job kids and keep it up!

This announcement is for all 7th Grade Choir Parents (8th Grade Parents, look out for an update after Christmas Break!;)

Hey all! Coming home with your choir daughter/son today should be the following parent letter with the information for our upcoming 7th Grade Christmas Scavenger Hunt Night. (Link to Parent Letter can be found here for your convenience)

1. Who: 7th Grade NMS Choir Students Only
2. What: 7th Grade Choir Pizza and Christmas Scavenger Hunt Night (Cost: $5)
3. Where: Northridge Middle School
4. When: December 17th, 2025 (after school until 5:30pm) *Pick up outside of Door 1
5. Why: To reward and get to know these awesome kids outside of the classroom and have some festive fun to celebrate the season!

This will not be a mandatory event but we sure hope your daughter/son can join in for the fun! Pick up time will be at 5:30pm at Door 1 of the Middle School.

Hope to see them there! – Mr. Maura and Mr. Norwood

Hey all!

If you weren’t able to make it out to the high school on Saturday evening, you missed an amazing show! These kids absolutely knocked it out of the park, putting such an awesome performance together in such a quick turnaround (crazy to think they had just hit the stage for the first time this year three weeks ago!?)! A huge thank you to all of our parent chaperones, photographers, ushers, box office workers, treat/water/locker decoration volunteers who helped make this show possible! We’ve already started having some awesome pictures of the night come in to share with you all(thank you to Mrs. Norris for this first batch)! Link to NMS Christmas 2025 Album Please feel free to share and enjoy (Please download any images you like (rather than taking screenshots, which are not as crisp or clear). Thank you again to her for catching these awesome shots!

On to a somewhat sad note, the camera that we had set up to record the show ended up having an card error and failed to save a recording of the show.😔 This unfortunately means we do not currently have a full performance link to share out with you all or to show the kids. To help see if we can crowdsource a solution to this problem, if any parents/family members/friends/neighbors/etc. happened to snag recordings of any or all of the performance we would love to get a chance to get ahold of them. To that effect, here is a link to a google drive folder that you all should be able to access and upload any recordings of the show to help (feel more than free to email Mr. Maura or Mr. Norwood if you are not able to access/upload).

Thank you all again for all of your help in making this awesome show happen! Excited to start stepping into contest music next semester and show off how much their voices can grow in the next 3 months (but happy to have a little more of a pause between now and then this time😉)! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas season and break in the next couple weeks! Thanks all!

Hey all! Hard to believe we’re already here at the start of December! As we count down the last few days heading into the start of show week, we just had a few tidbits of “need to know info” that we wanted to pass on your way!

1. The Christmas Concert is only 5 days away on Saturday (December 6th at 6:00pm)! There will only be one show for this concert, so we hope to see you there!
2. Concert Tickets are on sale now! Tickets are $3 and can be bought by the students during choir classes all throughout this week. Tickets will also be available at the Door on show day (same price).
3. We will be having our Tech Rehearsal for special roles (solos, dancers, speaking parts, show choir, etc.) tomorrow (12/2) in the High School Auditorium. All students will be done at 5:45 and released to Door 23 (corner near the Natatorium/MAC).
4. We will be having our Dress Rehearsal for all choir students on Thursday (12/4) in the High School Auditorium. Students will be released at the same time (5:45pm) for this rehearsal (6th Grade – Door 23, 7th Grade – Door 1, 8th Grade – Door 29). Knight Lights will rehearse until 6:30pm and release to Door 23.
5. On the day of, we have been told that there may be limited parking spaces available around the concert time due to other events happening at the MAC. The parking lots outside of Door 23 and 29 will be the normal recommended parking location, however overflow parking will also be available at the front of the High School outside of Door 1 if spaces are limited (with Door 1 being open as an additional entrance). Thank you for your understanding.
6. We are still looking to add a couple more chaperones for both Dress Rehearsal and Concert (mainly 6th and 7th Grade), as well as potentially adding a few more ushers. If you might consider helping out in this way, please feel free to reach out to Mr. Maura or myself asap! Thank you!
7. Finally, we have reminded students in class, but those students interested in taking a solo/ensemble to ISSMA S&E in February must have their registration forms turned in tomorrow morning to be entered into the event. *In the event of a 2-hour delay please reach out to Mr. Norwood/Mr. Maura with intent to register.

I believe that’s everything we have to throw your way at the moment! Super excited to show off what the kids have been able to put together since you last saw them at SwingFry 3 weeks ago! Just you wait! Thanks all!

Hey all! We finally got to combine the grade level choirs today and we are super excited to show off these kids’ sound on Saturday! Just in case you were wondering/wanting a rundown of the schedule for the day of, we have received the show order for Saturday. Call times should be 30 minutes before their performance time (6th Grade – 2:40pm, 7th Grade – 3:20pm, 8th Grade – 4:00pm, KL – *5:25 Dressed and Ready).

Reminder: There is still time to order tickets ahead and save a little money, so consider skipping the line and ordering those online here (https://northridgechoirs.ludus.com/index.php)! More info on prices can be found below.

Excited for the kids to get an opportunity to show you the hard work they’ve been putting in! Hope to see you there!

Hey all!

We have received SwingFry information to pass on to you all from the high school! Below you will find a letter that should be coming home with your daughter/son today, as well as the links to the SwingFry signups mentioned.

We are just under 2 months out from our first performance of the year, the SwingFry! In case you were not a part of the choirs previously, a couple things to know. The SwingFry is our big fundraising event for the year put on in partnership with our high school choirs. During the event, students from 6th grade to senior hit the stage to put on amazing performances for the thousands of parents, family, friends, and community members coming out to the see the show! Throughout the course of the day there will be Bake Sales, Silent Auctions, as well as an All You Can Eat Chicken and Fish Dinner that you won’t want to miss! To help make this event possible, it takes a tremendous amount of help from students, parents, and volunteers. On the SwingFry tab of the choir website you will find links to different ways that you can help us out in many areas of need. Our high school parent volunteers help cover the times during our own middle school performances (tentatively between 3:00pm and 4:45pm, definite times to come in October) so that our parents/etc. are able to catch their daughter/son’s performance, so we are asking our middle school choir parents to help cover times during high school performances to allow them to do the same. We are looking to have at least one sign-up from each choir students family (more is definitely welcome as well😉). If you could take a look at those links and help fill in an area of need, it would be greatly appreciated! Can’t wait to show off the awesome work these kids have been putting in! Thanks all!

SwingFry 2025 Parent Volunteer Sign-Ups

Desserts & Bake Sale Sign-Ups

Hey all! Just wanted to share out an opportunity to catch an awesome performance this weekend! The Purdue Men’s Varsity Glee Club (including 3 of our own former Northridge Grads, Nicholas Beaver, Nathan Gibson, and Drew Stahly) will be presenting a performance alongside our own Northridge Northern Lights on Saturday, September 27th at 7:00pm. Ticket information can be found below (with a special $10 student ticket price for Northridge students)! Hope to see a bunch of you out there cheering on this awesome performance!