High Plains Jazz Festival set for Monday
Musicians from eight high schools and two middle schools will participate in the annual High Plains Jazz Festival at Chadron State College on Monday, March 12.
All of the performances will be in Memorial Hall, starting at 8 a.m. and will be open to the public.
The participating high schools are Sundance, Wyo., Hershey, Gordon-Rushville, Gering, Mitchell, Ogallala, Sidney and Lead-Deadwood, S.D. The middle schools are Gering and Gordon-Rushville. All will have jazz instrumental groups. Sundance also will have a vocal jazz ensemble.
At 1 p.m., the vocal jazz ensemble and the Jazz Birds from Chadron State will give a concert.
The clinicians will be Celeste Delgado-Pelton, director of music at Northeastern Junior College at Sterling, Colo., and Mike Steinel, a member of the jazz faculty at the University of North Texas.
Delgado-Pelton is a founding faculty member of the Rocky Mountain Vocal Jazz Camp that is beginning its ninth year. Steinel is a Yamaha trumpet artist and has played with the Chicago Jazz Quintet and the Frank Mantooth Band.
The clinicians will lead improvisational clinics at 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
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