Summary
Organization name
Richardson Community Chorale
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas
Address
P. O. Box 836754Richardson, TX 75083
Richardson Community Chorale
A nonprofit organization
$8,340 raised by 40 donors
70% complete
$12,000 Goal
About
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The Richardson Community Chorale is a non-auditioned choral ensemble. Everyone who loves to sing is welcome. From its inception, the focus of the Richardson Community Chorale (RCC) has been to make Richardson a singing city where everyone can come together to join their voices in song. We seek to provide a fun, musically enriching environment by presenting repertoire that will both entertain and inspire audiences of all ages and interests. The RCC strives to have a positive impact on the community through performances of choral music that range from well-known masterworks to musical theater and popular classics, as well as presenting premiers of new compositions.
Our motto is Sing for Joy! Adhering to this motto has enabled the RCC to grow in both membership and audience size since our first concert in December of 2016. We are entirely supported by donations, grants, and membership dues, as RCC concerts are open to the public free of charge.
The Richardson Community Chorale’s 2026 season continues with our run out performances to local senior centers and rehab providers. On April 17th will we visit Friends Place in Richardson. It is always one of our most joyful events. Our next performance of the season will be our spring concert titled Celtic Voices on May 1st at 7:00pm at First United Methodist Church Richardson. This concert will include guest artists, Skyland, a Dallas based Eclectic Celtic band and other local talent. The generous support of our donors and the community helped us to expand on the number of performances we gave last season, allowing us to reach approximately twice as many audience members. Therefore, we have added another Spring event to our calendar. This season will end with a combined concert with the Richardson Community Band to celebrate the 250th birthday of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. We join many cultural arts groups in sharing our heritage of music and national pride. Join us May 24th at 7:00pm at the First United Methodist Church Richardson for our cultural arts collaboration. As always, there will be cookies.
Our singers pay a fee to participate, and we receive a grant from the City of Richardson's Cultural Arts Commission as well as the Richardson Woman's Club Charitable Foundation. Because our concerts and smaller performances are presented FREE of charge, we depend on donations to help us defray the cost of rehearsal space, performance venues, professional services, sheet music, and business expenses.
COMMUNITY IMPACT: Our concerts are open to everyone. In addition, RCC reaches out to those who are unable to attend our concerts by performing in various underserved communities such as nursing homes, senior centers, hospitals, libraries, and at civic events.
We encourage people from all walks of life to enjoy the beauty of choral music. Our singers come from a diverse variety of backgrounds, and our scholarship program allows us to include singers who could not otherwise participate. In recent years, over 60 singers have been a part of the RCC. We have collaborated with other musical groups in the area to present excellent music each year to hundreds of residents of Richardson and surrounding communities.
Our Needs
The RCC performs in various underserved communities such as nursing facilities, senior centers, hospitals, libraries, day cares, community civic events, etc. for those who are unable to attend our concerts.
Donations support two major concerts each season, two mini-concerts, and performances for various community and civic events, all at no charge to attendees. In addition to paying rental fees for rehearsal and performance facilities, the Richardson Community Chorale provides a paid professional director and accompanist, as well as sheet music and musical training to those members lacking in skills and financial resources. RCC's goal is to continue to expand our outreach to the community, especially to the underserved in our community. To meet this goal we need community support.
Please support our goal by making a donation to the RICHARDSON COMMUNITY CHORALE.
Goal: $8,000.00.
Mission
The Richardson Community Chorale seeks to engage people of all ages within our local and surrounding communities in the enjoyment of a wide variety of choral music by performing in or listening to free, creative, and artistic concerts.
Needs
The Richardson Community Chorale offers free concerts to the communities in their performance areas of Dallas and Collin counties. We look for financial support in the community to allow us to continue bringing free, diverse musical programming. We are engaged in improvements to our performance quality and marketing and are looking for support in those areas.
Equity Statement
The Richardson Community Chorale believes that diversity has many aspects: race, sex, gender identity, age, culture, disability, socioeconomic status, and belief system, among others. We welcome all singers, without regard to these differences and without requiring an audition, to come together and sing as one.
The RCC is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in the makeup of the Chorale and in the provision of free performances to the entire community. We believe that music should be inclusive and available to all.
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Richardson, TX 75083