Welcome to Walt Disney World!
Enjoy a concert tour of Orlando, Florida. Immerse your choir, band, or orchestra in all that Disney has to offer. Most noteworthy, perform and share your music with your fellow park visitors!
Inspired by the dreams of Walt Disney, this Orlando theme park is the world’s largest and most visited recreational resort. Dedicated to the entertainment and education of children, Walt Disney World offers Disney Performing Arts. Disney Performing Arts is a program for bands, orchestras, choirs, and dance teams. The program provides a showcase for your group’s hard work and talent. Experience the performance of a lifetime in front of a Disney audience. Disney Performing Arts combines performances, workshops, and of course access to the four famous parks: The Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Students will have the opportunity to perform at the Waterside Stage in Downtown Disney for a surely excited and appreciative audience. During clinics and workshops, Walt Disney World cast members, many of them professional performers, provide hands-on instruction. Songs or medleys from popular Disney films are practiced, performed and also recorded in one of the Walt Disney World recording studios. These clinics and workshops will provide an especially professional and exciting experience for your group members.
Itinerary
Welcome to Orlando!
Enjoy an introduction to Florida as you stroll to the nearby Old Town Theme Park, where you can play games, shop, eat, and go on rides.
Check in to your hotel and take time to relax and refresh.
A rehearsal can be arranged this afternoon.
Tonight, a welcome dinner is served as your tour manager previews the days ahead.
Begin your first full day in Florida by participating in a Disney Performing Arts Workshop at Epcot.
Next, spend time exploring Epcot, including the World Showcase, highlighting the international culture of eleven countries, and Future World, dedicated to technological innovation.
Tonight, enjoy the IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth, a fireworks, laser, and water show.
This morning visit Disney’s Magic Kingdom and its six areas: Main Street USA; Adventureland; Frontierland; Liberty Square; Fantasyland; and Tomorrowland—all of which are centered around the iconic Cinderella’s Castle.
Next perform an afternoon concert at Downtown Disney’s Waterside Stage.
Tonight, the evening is free to explore the parks of the Magic Kingdom and to watch the impressive fireworks show.
This morning, perform a friendship concert at a local school or another community venue for an outreach concert, followed by time to mingle and exchange.
Mid-day, visit Disney’s Animal Kingdom, themed entirely around animal conservation and education and featuring elephants, lions, rhinos, gorillas, many unique bird species, and more.
This evening, a festive farewell dinner is served to your group.
Start the day with a visit to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, drawing inspiration from Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.
This afternoon, depart for the airport and your return flight home.
Concert Tour Highlights
MAGIC KINGDOM
Inspired by the original Disneyland theme park in California, the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida was opened in October of 1971. Its six “lands”: Main Street USA; Adventureland; Liberty Square; Frontierland; Fantasyland; and Tomorrowland, still make up today’s park. New rides and attractions are added often in addition to the most popular that remain and continue to be enjoyed, such as Space Mountain and Pirates of the Caribbean. Visitors throughout the park also have the opportunity to meet and greet their favorite Disney characters, adding to the magic of the park.
EPCOT
EPCOT is an acronym for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. It consists of Future World and the World Showcase and is dedicated to international culture and technological innovation. Future World contains multiple pavilions, all of which explore innovative aspects and applications of technology which are demonstrated through attractions such as Spaceship Earth, Innoventions, Test Track and Mission: Space. The World Showcase highlights eleven countries: Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, Morocco, France, United Kingdom and Canada. Each country’s pavilion is staffed by native citizens as part of Disney’s Cultural Representative Program and visitors can get a glimpse of culture and cuisine from around the world.
HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is themed on Old Hollywood from the 1930s and 1940s. The park is divided into six areas: Hollywood Boulevard; Echo Lake; Streets of America; Animation Courtyard; Pixar Place; and Sunset Boulevard, with each area focusing on a different aspect of show business, from merchandise and movie sets, to stunt shows and the development process of an animated character. Thrill rides and live entertainment complete this park making it a must see on your Disney adventure.
ANIMAL KINGDOM
Animal Kingdom is Walt Disney World’s newest park. A combination of theme park and zoo, it is focused on conservation and education and sits on 500 acres of exotic landscape. It is home to 600 species of trees, 350 species of grasses and 1,800 different shrubs, ferns, mosses and perennials. The Tree of Life, the centerpiece of the park, stands 14 stories tall and is sculpted to display 325 animals on its trunk. The two main attractions are the roller coaster Expedition Everest and Kilimanjaro Safaris which provides park guests with the opportunity to see live animals ranging from antelopes and giraffes to lions and zebras.