St. John Singers Inc

Ocama! is the Taino word for “listen.”
​Ocama! is an after-school select choir for children grades 3-8. This experience builds vocal, musical, and social skills and strengthens community relationships as the choir sings out for community events.

With the Covid-19 virus active in the USVI, we are unable to hold any rehearsals for the in-school St. John All-Island Children’s Choir Program. In order to keep the children engaged and building on aspects of the Children's Choir experience, we have a community cultural video project instead.

Children from pre-k – grade 5 on St. John receive 5-10 minute videos of storytelling, teaching dances, games, drumming patterns and more - all made by ancestral Virgin Islanders and Caribbean-born community members. These videos provide enjoyment and study breaks, but they are also be preserving some of the old ways, and teaching them to the young, who are the ones that will carry them forward.

This material will inspire our future on-site programming, and we will do our part to help keep those stories, games, dances and rhythms a salient childhood experience for all of St. John’s young people. We could very well have a lot of percussionists and dancers in our concerts.

St. John Recovery Choir,
is a choir for men and women, formed in the aftermath ​of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Open to all abilities and learning styles. Members are provided with recordings, lyric sheets and sheet music. We perform holiday music, Motown, Civil Rights songs and songs that celebrate our local culture in concerts and community events.

Two levels of interactive video conferencing classes open to adults with internet access across the world.

An interactive video conferencing class open to adults, with internet access, across the world. We explore breathing techniques and breath pressure management, appoggia, posture, the registers, resonance, diction, the anatomy of the vocal tract, technical adjustments for style, and belt technique. We learne a lot of exercises and apply the techniques to songs we want to sing more beautifully

Created in response to the lack of interactive activities for seniors living in the Virgin Islands. In episodes aired twice weekly on Virgin Islands Public television WTJX, they sing Virgin Islands favorites, teaching the harmonies and vocal warm-ups in addition to reminding viewers about posture and breathing. This keeps seniors moving forward and engaging musically, until such time that we can safely come together to sing. After speaking with some of our senators, we realized that learning all the same songs across the Virgin Islands raises the possibility of singing together in future Virgin Islands-wide senior events. What a celebration THAT will be!