By PAT NEWMAN
pnewman@TheCitizenNews.com

About eight million people will have the chance to hear Peachtree City Elementary School's chorus perform tomorrow on PBS television as part of the 16th annual World's Largest Concert, to be broadcast at 1 p.m.

The group was selected to be part of the nationwide ensemble based on a performance tape submitted by choral director Carolyn Groover. Peachtree City Elementary is one of 22 schools from across the nation performing, and the only school from Georgia included in the afternoon event.

The concept of the world's largest concert was created by The National Association for Music Education, to focus attention on music in the nation's schools. This year's event corresponds with NAMC's annual conference in Washington, D.C. Secretary of Education Richard Riley will lead a special general session during which music teachers, music educators and guests will participate in the WLC from the nation's capital.

Peachtree City Elementary will be featured in the “Let's Make Music” America segment of the performance. The open chorus features 47 fourth- and fifth-grade students under the direction of Groover and accompanied by Lynn Craig. Their 1999-2000 performances include the Festival of Trees at the Georgia World Congress Center, winter concerts at schools and area nursing homes and a six specially selected fifth graders who participated in the Georgia Statewide Elementary Honors Chorus and “Sing Along with the Legislators.”

Chorus members are Mandy Bolia, Claire Ashley, Katie Schoeller, Lauren McCloskey, Mandy Mendoza, Bridget Dugan, Claire Vallejos, Chantal Hand, Rachel O'Hara, Katherine Diaz, Jonathan Leonard, Jessica Miller, Yvette Lawhorn, Jeffrey Hoyos, Brittany LaPalm, James Kipa, Abby Hamann, Amber Boyles, Elizabeth Wages, Kiara Yarbrough, Kenneth Thompson, Kelly Helton, Ross Menke, Justin Allison, Jordan Hardy, Hannah Williams, Olivia Tran, Anthony Schmit, Jason Colbert, P.J. Quinn, Jeffrey Holmes, Kegan Donaghe, Jessica Lasseter, Ai Taniguchi, Thalia Rivas, Acelyne Summerson, Garrett Menke, Matthew Manley, Hanna Hashtroudi, Mallory Chapman, Jessica Lange, Shakera Brown, Kalli Cuny, Christopher Amil, Cherise Quamme, Jennifer Safko and Ashlee Whitson.