by Alix Messer |

Everyone has something to wish for this holiday season. Maybe it is a bike or an iPad, but the choir students are wishing for the chance to be featured on 99.7 radio station.

“We sang In Dulci Jubilo. It’s a song in Latin and English. I don’t know the exact translation, but it’s an a capella piece,” senior Bree Patterson said.

The concert choir traveled over by Liberty North to record their song.

“We traveled to a church and we sang one of our songs and recorded it. We sent the recording to the radio station for the competition,” sophomore Joel Currence said.

If the choir wins the competition, 99.7 will make a healthy donation to the choir department.

“Whoever wins gets $5,000, and the $5,000 goes towards our budget for choir and we get to spend it on things we need,” Patterson said.

The choir not only has a chance to win $5,000 if they win, but they also have the chance to do a live recording down at the 99.7 studio.

“As performers and as a choir it really helped us and gave us more experience. We’re a choir that wants to be noticed. We have some really talented people in the school,” Patterson said.

Concert choir will certainly be noticed and they will be getting their name out due to the thousands of listeners of 99.7.

“We find out the Friday that finals is happening, and that day if we win, we have to go down to the music station and do a live recording on the air. It’s that day, there’s no notice, and we would miss 3rd hour finals, but it’s really cool because we get to do a live recording,” junior Lauren Wrigley said.

It is easy to talk about recording the song and the money they could win, but the choir worked hard to put this piece together. They picked In Dulci Jubilo and learned it just three weeks before they had to record the song. It pressed the concert choir to work hard to earn their fame, but it was still fun for them.

“I enjoyed it because that was my first recording and it was interesting to see how much our choir worked together to sound amazing,” Currence said.

The choir sounded amazing on December 3 when 99.7 announced that Liberty made it to the final eight. Concert choir has to face off against the other seven schools and battle for first place.

“Even if we don’t win, we still have the experience of making a professional recording and sending it into the competition,” Wrigley said.

As of December 13, Liberty has advanced even further, beating Lee’s Summit West High school.