"Music...an Expression of the Heart"

The Lapeer County Concert Choir is beginning its 43rd season and has been providing choral music to the area for more than 40 years. We are a non-profit organization so each year we look to contributors' generous donations to help bolster our program. Contributors are a unique group of individuals. Your support helps us purchase music, pay for rental of our rehearsal and concert venues, and helps pay the salaries of the musicians in our orchestra among other things.

The past 6 months have seen us through many new and exciting changes! We hired a new Conductor, Garth Starr, who is a Lapeer East graduate. And for the first time ever in the history of the Choir, your generous support coupled with ticket sales, allowed us to purchase our very own risers!!

The Lapeer County Concert Choir is a volunteer organization whose members do not get paid but sing for the pleasure of bringing you the best quality intertainment possible and for the joy that singing brings to our hearts. The choir performs music from the masters as well as more contemporary composers. Many of our concerts include accompaniments by a small orchestra, brass group, or individual instruments. The choir's ever-challenging concert seasons have given this group much to be proud of and performing for you is a most rewarding experience.

As this choir has grown and attempted to provide more enriching concerts, our expenses have also increased. Although the choir members are all volunteers, we do pay our director and pianist. The instrumentalists used are professionals or semi-profecssionals.

In order to maintain the quality of the concerts we provide, we depend upon help from folks like you. through our contributor's program you can support this valuable cultural endeavor with a tax- deductible gift.

As a way of thanking you, all donors, except those who wish to remain anonymous, will have their names listed in our concert programs for both the Winter and Spring concerts and on our website:(www.orgsites.com/mi/concert-choir). We will also, at your request, place a link to your website from ours.

In the past, to show our appreciation to our donors, we have sent, depending upon the amount of the gift, free tickets to our concert. They have always been tickets to the winter concert. This year, we will be sending you a "generic" ticket good for either our Winter OR our Spring concert. The choice of which concert to attend is up to you.

Categories of contributors and their gifts are:

• Supporter $1 - $49
• Patron $50 - $99 (2 tickets)
• Sponsor $100 - $249 (3 tickets )
• Major Benefactor $250 & Over (4 tickets & letterhead)