You have a month to start planning your summer at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor. The season will be announced officially on March 1st, which will be the 50th for the organization and the final one for Executive Director Mona Christensen before she passes the program’s reins over to Jenna Ferdon this fall. The layout of the summer will be the same, with the percussion session kicking things off, followed by one symphony session and two jazz sessions. Christensen says they are working hard to recruit students to attend the sessions, which include one-on-one and group rehearsal sessions followed by near-nightly performances. Even though the announcement is still a few weeks away, Christensen teases that plenty of familiar faces will cross the stage inside the concert barn.
While you have a few more weeks before you can start thinking about summer at Birch Creek, you do not have to wait as long to attend a performance there. Tickets are sold out for the next Valentine’s Day dinner concert featuring Katie Ernst, Larry Brown, and Dustin Laurenzi. Birch Creek is accepting names for its waitlist for the event.