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Katy Briel, Clark Pleasant Middle School band director, was awarded the Indiana Outstanding Music Educator of the Year award by Mick Bridgewater, executive director of Indiana State School Music ...
The success of this group is also sure to have reverberations throughout School District 75. First of all, CSMS will get an automatic invitation to perform at next year’s SuperState Band Festival.
It showed the greatest high school and middle school musical groups in America. Only seventy-one groups were able to participate, and out of those, there were only 7 middle schools, including Cooper.
PARKERSBURG — VanDevender Middle School held its final Spring Choir and Band Concert Thursday night in the school’s gym. The school will shut its doors for good at the end of this school year.
J.T. Moore's decades-old band program faces elimination unless the "Band Together" fundraiser can secure $92,000 for a new director by the end of June.
“This Honor Band will not only recognize the hard work and dedication of our middle school musicians, but it will also inspire a deeper love for music and foster a strong sense of community ...
After a successful seventh and eighth grade band concert on March 25, the Westfield Middle School 125-member band is looking forward to more exciting events in April.
Lollapalooza’s weird, wild history A riotous oral history by Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour charts the festival’s path from its culture-quaking birth to its ignominious end and beyond.
BRIGHTON, Colo. — A nonprofit's annual instrument drive is helping a rapidly expanding middle school band program overcome financial barriers and ensure every student has access to quality ...
Jennifer Herr is the school counselor at Johnstown Middle School. “I think Angela is one of the best educators I’ve had the privilege to work with in my 20-plus years of being in schools ...
PARKERSBURG — The Blennerhassett Middle School Symphonic Band has been selected as the 2025 West Virginia Music Educators Association (WVMEA) State Honor Ensemble. “It just means the world to ...
See photos of the middle school band and orchestra rehearsal for All-City Festival Christopher Short, director of the middle school-level band for the All-City Music Festival, conducts a rehearsal ...