Members of the Wallowa Valley Chorale practice at Joseph United Methodist Church.

Wallowa County residents are in for a real Christmas treat this year. For the first time in several years the Wallowa Valley Chorale will present a Christmas Concert.

“It’s been quite awhile since we’ve done a Christmas concert,” conductor Randy Morgan said. “But people really wanted to do it this year.”

The Christmas program is scheduled as a kickoff for Winterfest in Enterprise and is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the OK Theatre on Thursday, Dec. 10. An optional donation is requested for admission.

The program will include both sacred and secular music. Some of the more intricate offerings this year include “Carols Around and Around” — in which one group will sing “The First Noel” while another is singing “Dona Nobis Pacem” — and the Dan Kantor arrangement of “Night of Silence,” which slides into “Silent Night.”

The Chorale also will present “Make Them Hear” from the musical “Ragtime,” “Still, Still, Still,” an Austrian Christmas carol, “Calypso Christmas” and more.

“We’re going to do about 13 songs,” Morgan said. “The program will last about 45 minutes.”

There are only a few more practices left before the show, so new singers can’t be accepted for this performance, but the usual March performance is coming and new members are welcome for that. The Chorale currently has six male members. “We really, really wish there were more,” Morgan said.

Although the Chorale currently is comprised entirely of Wallowa County residents, individuals willing to drive from outside the county also will be embraced.

The Chorale has been a Wallowa County fixture since the 1950s and consists of 25 members this year — many of whom have been singing with choir for decades.

Morgan himself began singing with the Chorale “about 10 years ago,” he said.

Nowadays he uses his perfect pitch and more than 38 years as band and choral director at Enterprise High School to organize and conduct the Chorale.

To join the Chorale call Morgan at 541-426-3593, or contact Betty Cosgrove at 432-8181 or bettycosofjoseph@gmail.com.