The District 2 (Northeast) High School Music Festival brings together music students from fourteen schools in the Northeast Kingdom. Students audition in the beginning of November at North Country Union High School in Newport, VT for places in the Festival Band or Chorus. The festival itself takes place in late March or early April.
November 15, 2025: Auditions at NCUHS
March 27-28, 2026: Northeast Music Festival
Changes to the 2026 Festival
Choral Students : Festival chorus students will participate in a run through of all festival music in the auditorium prior to the general meeting. The purpose of the run through is to ensure that all students are adequately prepared to participate in the festival chorus. Singers should plan to arrive by 9:45am if they would like to participate in a group warm-up, or can arrive by 10am when the run through begins. The run through will be conducted by the choral directors of each school and will focus on specific passages of each song (to be announced at a later date).
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We are shifting to a digital acceptance form for this year's festival. Please print off physical copies of the student acceptance form as in years past in order to collect parent/guardian signatures, but keep the physical copy of the acceptance form. You will then enter the information on the Google Form linked above (Acceptance Form button) to create a digital database for the festival.
Please remember to include student height for choral auditions.
Please include a secondary voice part for all Alto, Tenor, and Bass/Baritone singers.
Reminders for Auditions
Choral auditions
Solo section is mm. 1-12 in the linked version above.
Basses may choose the octave in the octave split in m. 12.
Basses may choose to sing the baritone line in mm. 22-25 or may sing the bass line with the final note up the octave.