The Bandung Choral Society from Indonesia organized the 2nd World Virtual Choir Festival from 1st December to 6th December 2020. They extended invitation to different Choir Groups from all over the world to participate even though the world is experiencing Covid19 and countries having to lockdown schools and colleges and obeying the guidelines of their respective countries in safety distancing, wearing of masks and no gathering of groups. Invitation was done through the social media ,Facebook ,Instagram and YouTube. The KC Lights Choir from Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya were invited to represent India at the Concert of Nations in Indonesian 75th Independence Day Virtual Choir Festival on 18 August ' 2020 and Choir Groups from 13 countries were selected to be a part of the 75th Indonesian Independence Day at the Friendship Concert of the Nations. It was the greatest sense of pride for the KC Lights Choir to represent India and perform at the Friendship Concert . The KC Lights Choir are young boys and girls from Kiddies Corner Higher Secondary School, Shillong, Meghalaya represented India as proud Indians to create a strong bonding with the youth of Indonesia and to inspire other young students to bring laurels to India and their music to become the medium to build friendship with the youth of Indonesia . This time, the older children were preparing for their exams and so the Principal of the School ,Brain Wallang did not want to lose out this opportunity and took it as a challenge during this pandemic and lockdown and formed a Choir with the little ones from the school to enter at the 2nd World Virtual Choir Festival, 2020 . Brain Wallang decided to form another Choir group of the seniors and past pupils for the Pop & Jazz category and decided to be called KC LIGHTS - the Family. There are 32 members of them in this choir and took this challenge to make India proud. It had been very difcult to get the children to practice live, but they had done a good job. The Bandung Choral Society decided to have the 2nd World Virtual Choir Festival 2020 and arranged the Opening Ceremony, Closing & Awarding Ceremony on Zoom. The participants were asked to send only one representative to attend the Opening Ceremony, and Closing & Awarding on Zoom. The Opening Ceremony, Closing & Awarding Ceremony was shown on LIVE STREAMING on YouTube Tommyanto Kandisaputra and Facebook account Tommy Kandisaputra. There were some strict protocols for the Workshops that only one representative from each participant country to attend the workshops and to meet the Jury. They introduced two special awards for “MOST VIEWED VIDEO” on YouTube for Solo Singing Competition and Choir Competition.
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The KC LIGHTS Choir group was formed of 20 members and the age ranging from 6 to 13 years old and from Class 1 to Class 7. The Lead singers for the song, 'You Say' chosen for the Competition were Gabriella War, Medadajied Kharbithai and Aimeiaka Dkhar.
KC LIGHTS- the Family Choir group comprising of 32 members of both seniors of the school and past pupils. Registration was carried out together with the full details of the choir, the categories they were to participate, the songs selected for the competition, the rights to sing the song, the scores, biography of the choirs, photographs of the choirs and the name of the Conductor.
