47 Voorheesville students participate in Colonial Council Music Festival

Feb. 17, 2010—Forty-seven students were selected to participate in the Colonial Council Music Festival held at Waterford-Halfmoon High School on February 3 and February 6. Voorheesville students joined with musicians from other Colonial Council schools to form three music ensembles. The musical groups this year included fifth and sixth grade chorus, middle school band, and high school band. Rehearsals on both Wednesday afternoon and Saturday morning culminated in a concert on Saturday afternoon.

Students in the 5-6 chorus included Miles DeFranco, Abigail Goldfarb, Claire Guyer, Maya Herr, Thomas Kelefant, Nathan Lawrence, Jayne Parmenter, Noah Robinson, Stefanie Defronzo, Sadye Goldfarb, Eliza Jobin-Davis, Mike Losse, Edmund Schultz, and Meghan Sweeney.

Selected for the middle school band were Rebecca Barron, Brianne Borter, Nicole Brower, David Cardona, Ben Denn, Erin Gannon, Shawn Goyer, Tori Hargrave, Alex Kaloyeros, Mickey Knight, Ben Mackay, Kim McQuade, Sarah Peltz, Mackenzie Powell, Adele Reilly, Paul Rothberg, Samantha Scherer, Jenna Vandervort and Ben Voss.

High school band members included Mary Adkins, Armine Kurkjian, Stephen Barron, Sawyer Cresap, Karen Dawson, Sam Genovesi, Alexis Hargrave, Sal Loccisano, Justina Miranda, Casey Morrison, Erika Niner, Karen Obertubbesing, Colton Parrott, Bailey Ryan, and Garrett Wineinger.

Congratulations to all of these music students for their hard work and dedication!