Burroughs "Powerhouse" 2011

In 1978, Mary Rago took over as vocal music director of John Burroughs High School and launched one of the nation's very first competitive show choir programs.

In 2006, Rago was succeeded as director by one of her former students, Brendan Jennings, who is assisted by artistic director, Jen Oundjian.

The program's advanced mixed choir, Powerhouse, has long been recognized as one of the nation's finest show choirs. An inspiration for the television series "Glee," Powerhouse was invited to perform on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2010 as a representative of the modern highschool show choir phenomenon.

In the past year, Powerhouse has also performed opposite the cast of "Glee," Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado, The Canadian Tenors and Foreigner. The group was featured in "Gleeful: The Real Show Choirs of America", a British documentary, was recently profiled on the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" and performed on "Dancing with the Stars" in October, 2010. And this past February, Powerhouse traveled to Hong Kong to perform in the internationally televised Chinese New Year Parade.

Powerhouse has accumulated countless awards and accolades on both the local and national levels, including Grand Championships at the 2009 FAME National Showchoir Cup in New York, the 2008 FAME Chicago National Showchoir Competition and the 2007 FAME Orlando National Showchoir Competition.

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[wildTYLERwild]

Love the firew works but I still love 2009

[rockerchick2100]

wow...im in sound waves choir at the same high school :DD....thats gonna be me senior year....POWERHOUSE 2015 HER I COME

[Mak3itShine]

i wish our show choir had as many of guys as they do.. :/ im jealous

[mediamadman747]

Powerhouse needs to "clean house."

[achmed113]

There were just on AGT!!

[therobliv]

awesome!

[BORNAWESOME101]

wow!