Our Choirs

'Arise!'

The contemporary choir at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Aberdeen provides music for the Sunday, 11:15 AM Mass with a repertoire that focuses on the best of today's Christian Praise and Catholic liturgical music. Volunteers are welcome to become members of 'Arise!' either as a singer or an instrumentalist. Instruments can include guitar, percussion, trumpet, violin, flute and so on. Rehearsals are planned for 10 - 11 AM on Sunday mornings, just before Mass, to make it easier for our younger and working members! We aim to make the most uplifting church music in Harford County!

St. Joan Of Arc Choir

This is our 'traditional' choir at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, which provides music for the Sunday 8:30 AM Mass with a wide repertoire drawing from traditional to modern day composers of sacred music. Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings 6:30-8:00 PM, September to May. Instrumentalists are also welcome. If you live in Aberdeen or anywhere in Harford County or beyond, are an older teen or adult who likes to sing in harmony, we would love for you to come and sing with us.

Heavenly Voices Children's Choir

(Coming in 2022!)

This choir will be open to all children in grades 3 to 8 from any school, public or private, in Aberdeen or Harford County. (Younger children may be admitted on a case by case basis.) Rehearsals are proposed for Wednesday afternoons, at our church at 222 South Law St. in Aberdeen MD. The Children's Choir will sing at selected masses throughout the year.

Cantor Ministry

Cantors are singers with some training and experience who lead the resposorial psalm, gospel acclamation, and the assembly in song. Cantor ministry is not for beginners and requires a higher bar of musical ability and confidence than other music ministry participation. If you have a special gift for singing and a pleasant voice, we would love to hear from you.

Instrumentalists

We would love to enhance our worship with more instruments ... is you have some demonstrated ability and can read music (for classical instruments) please let us know. At this time we would especially love to hear from percussionists (drummers), and bassists ...

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Our Director

Feargal King joined our staff at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Aberdeen MD, in January 2020. In a career spanning three decades he has directed numerous choirs and ensembles, including serving as director of the Diocesan Chorale at St. Peter Cathedral in Rockford IL for 15 years. He has also directed several large children's choirs over many years, and led choir concert tours to Ireland and Italy. He uses a wide variety of church music from traditional chant to contemporary praise music and everything in between. Feargal believes in making music-making fun for volunteer musicians and his goal is for St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church to have the best church music in Harford County! 

Feargal is also a composer of contemporary sacred music with GIA Publications Inc., and through his own website, kingsongs.net