February 25, 2009
Music to Our Ears
Greg Bunge, Director of Bands at Badger High School, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, announced Tuesday that the Badger High School Jazz Ensemble has won a coveted berth in the Essentially Ellington Jazz Competition at Lincoln Center, New York, in May. For Bunge, who has tirelessly devoted hours of instruction, encouragement, support, education, and direction to scores of talented high school students throughout the past 14 years, this accomplishment has been a long time coming. The annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival is an innovative jazz education event. Each year, high school musicians from across the nation submit a recording and 15 finalist bands are selected through a highly competitive screening process. Once in New York, the finalists work with world class musicians which have, in the past included trumpeter Terral Stafford, jazz educator Ronald Carter, and others. Following three days of workshops and clinics, the top three bands perform before Wynton Marsalis and a panel of renowned judges. Can’t make it to Manhattan in May? Then be sure to mark your calendar now for Sunday, May 17th when the Badger High School Jazz Bands will perform, free of charge, at the annual Jazz on the Boats on Geneva Lake. Want to learn more about our wonderful community? Visit my website, www.SellingLakeGeneva.com for information about local schools, real estate and so much more! Hope to see you at Jazz on the Boat!
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Janis Hartley
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