The Warren County Community Singers (WCCS) is a non-audition, non-profit, community chorus. They perform an annual "Mayfest of Music" and "Winterfest of Music" in both Hackettstown and Washington. The members are people from all walks of life residing in Warren, Morris and Hunterdon counties and Pennsylvania and New York, ranging in age from high school through senior citizens, who share in the love of choral music.  They perform jazz, inspirational, spiritual, sacred and secular music, old and new, and pop tunes from Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.  The group began rehearsing in the fall of 1993 and presented their first concert, "A Winterfest of Music," in December 1993 with 31 singers.  By the time of the second concert, "A Mayfest of Song," in the spring of 1994, the group had grown to 40.  For the 2006-2007 season there were 65 members.

As of the 2006/2007 season, each concert features the Children's Chorus of Warren County, open to children with unchanged voices. Click here to view our December 2006 children's chorus performing on "Fox and Friends" on December 14, 2006!!! Note that there is a commercial first!

In addition to performing winter and spring concerts each year during the past years, the Warren County Community Singers perform annually at Belvidere's annual Victorian Days Celebration. The singers were featured at the dedication of the Karen Nash Memorial Butterfly Garden at the Memorial School in Washington in 1999.  In May 2001, they sang at the Warren County Community College commencement. In October 2005 they sang at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Washington as they celebrated their 50th anniversary. They performed at the Phillipsburg Tree Lighting on December 5, 2005.

Each year, at the spring concert, the members award scholarship(s) scholarships to exceptional Warren County to high school senior(s) pursuing an education in music.

The group is directed by Dr. Kathleen Riley of Allamuchy and accompanied by Helene Friedlander of Long Valley.

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