The Albert Lea High School show choir, ALHS ‘CAT’aclysmic will host their annual show choir competition on March 24. This marks the 17th year of this great event and brings in schools from all over for a day of wonderful entertainment and friendly competition.

The day will begin at 9 a.m. with schools from junior high, prep, class B, and class A divisions. Albert Lea’s SASS group will start the day at 9AM . The morning session will go from 9 a.m to 12:30 p.m. and resume at 1:15 p.m. after lunch. Albert Lea will perform at the end of the afternoon in exhibition at 5:10 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. to start out the finals show. Each choir performs for 25 minutes and meets with an adjudicator for a short critique while watching their performance on a videotape. At the end of the daytime competition, the top 3 winners from each class will be announced and the 5 top scoring teams will be announced. The grand finale for the day will be the finals show beginning at 7 p.m. featuring these top five groups competing all over again for the championship trophies.

The show choir students and their parents work very hard to put together a great day complete with food and decorations. Anyone who has seen this show knows that it is an incredible day of amazing student performances!

Schools competing this year are Albert Lea’s SASS at 9 a.m., Hill-Murray at 9:15 a.m., Jackson County Central at 9:30 a.m., New Prague at 9:55 a.m., Emmetsburg Junior High at 10:20 a.m., Adrian at 10:45 a.m., Hastings Prep at 11:10 p.m., Emmetsburg Black and Gold at 11:35 a.m., Sioux City Impulse at noon, Hastings Divaz at 11:15 a.m., Bloomington Jefferson Jive at 1:40 p.m., Sioux City New Sound at 2:05 p.m., North St Paul at 2:30 p.m., Emmetsburg High Voltage at 3:05 p.m., Onalaska at 3:30 p.m., Hastings Riverside Company at 3:55 p.m., Bloomington Jefferson Connection at 4:20 p.m. and Sioux City Headliners at 4:45 p.m.

Tickets are available at the door and are $10 for adults and $5 for students for the whole day or for the evening show. Come spend the day, have a great lunch and enjoy Las Vegas style entertainment right here in Albert Lea.