White Pine Community Choir

The White Pine Community Choir Association (WPCCA) is on a mission to restore the Centennial Fine Arts Center in Downtown Ely, Nevada. Originally built in 1927 as an LDS Stake Tabernacle, the building has been a landmark of this rural eastern Nevada community for almost a century. This Chamber Member’s commitment to Historic Preservation and determination to reopen a venue to community use earns them this week’s top spot as a White Pine Chamber Member Highlight of the week.
Founded in 1962, the WPCCA performed three to four concerts a year from 1979 to 2017. Its repertoire expanded to several major works and numerous compositions of sacred, secular, and patriotic nature. In addition to its regular concerts, the Choir was invited for special performances including: several state conventions of various organizations, U.S. Centennial Field Mass, radiothons, singspirations, special church services and funerals, and Elderhostel classes. The Choir was also invited to sing in Carnegie Hall, on European tours, and at the first National Choir Festival in Branson, Missouri, in 1998-1999.
Now, after decades of focusing on singing and presenting concerts for the community, the Choir regrouped in 2018 with the purpose of preserving the Centennial Fine Arts Center. The nearly century-old building is showing its age with a leaking roof and crumbling masonry. With substantial interest from the community in restoring and renovating the building so it could serve White Pine citizens once again as a gathering place, the Choir has been leading these efforts over the past five years. This weekend will be the first event held in the building in a very long time, and it will be a big one.

Business Contact: Holly Wilson

ZIP Code: 89315

Membership Year: 2003