Texas Girls' Choir

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The Texas Girls' Choir is a nonprofit organization based in North Texas. About 100 girls, between ages 8 and 12, perform in the choir.

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The Texas Girls' Choir is made up of around 100 girls between the ages of 8 and 12 from the North Texas region. [1] Rehearsals are held twice a week and the choir performs choreographed works, foreign-language songs and other programs. [1] [2]

The organization was founded in 1962 by Shirley Carter in Fort Worth, Texas. [3] There had been many boys' choirs in the region, but no girls' choirs during the 1960s. [4] The choir was fully integrated, during the time when segregation was legal, and included African-American girls from the beginning. [4] The choir was first called the City Girls' Choir, and was incorporated in 1965 as the Texas Girls' Choir. [3] It was the first girl's choir in the United States to be incorporated. [5] The choir first performed in the Fort Worth downtown YWCA and later at the First Baptist Church. [4] The group found a permanent home in 1973. [4]

The choir has performed in over 46 countries. [6] In 1970, the choir was invited to perform in Tel Aviv in the Tel Aviv Youth Center and also sang at the Mount of Beatitudes. [7]

After Carter died, one of the original members of the first choir group, Debi Weir, took over as executive director in 2002. [5] Weir had been working as the administrative assistant since 1980. [5] Weir died in 2015. [8]

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  1. 1 2 Brown, Edward (25 November 2015). "Texas Girls' Choir Time". Fort Worth Weekly. p. 1. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  2. ↑ Brown, Edward (25 November 2015). "Texas Girls' Choir Time". Fort Worth Weekly. p. 2. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  3. 1 2 "Woman's Club Begins Yuletide With Song". Grand Prairie Daily News. 30 November 1975. Retrieved 2 August 2017– via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Brown, Edward (25 November 2015). "Texas Girls' Choir Time". Fort Worth Weekly. p. 3. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  5. 1 2 3 Smith, Diane (14 December 2015). "Texas Girls' Choir mourns loss of leader". Star-Telegram. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  6. ↑ "Shirley Carter". Texas Women's Hall of Fame. Texas Woman's University. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  7. ↑ "Girls' Choir Schedules Holy Land Christmas Trip". Grand Prairie Daily News. 9 November 1970. Retrieved 2 August 2017– via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Brown, Edward (15 December 2015). "Remembering Girl's Choir Director Debra "Debi" Weir". - Fort Worth Weekly. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
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