KingSpry is proud to sponsor the SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase for a sixth straight year.
The smooth sounds of jazz will fill the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café at SteelStacks as a record 20 regional high school jazz bands perform during the sixth-annual SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase presented by King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul on Feb. 12 &19 starting at noon.
The jazz band showcase features talented scholastic jazz groups from Pennsylvania and New Jersey performing in front of a live audience and judging panel of music educators.
Following the preliminary rounds, the top six groups, as determined by the judges, will advanced to the finals on March 19 at the ArtsQuest Center. Among the participants this year are North Penn High School, which won last year’s competition and then went on to perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, as well as a record four high schools from the Garden State. The event’s top three finalists will all earn the chance to open for artists at the RiverJazz jazz series at SteelStacks this spring.
2017 Jazz Showcase participants:
Feb. 12, 12 p.m.
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts
Louis E. Dieruff High School
The Hill School
Belvidere High School
February 12, 4 p.m.
Fleetwood Senior High School
Phillipsburg High School
Bernards High School
North Penn High School Columbia Jazz Band
North Penn High School Jazz Band
February 19, 12 p.m.
Delaware Valley High School
Wilson Area High School
Upper Moreland High School
Saucon Valley High School
Easton Area High School
February 19, 4 p.m.
Warren Hills Regional High School
Kutztown Area High School
Pocono Mountain East High School
Freedom High School
Joe’s Jazz Café (Quakertown High School)
Quakertown High School
“KingSpry is proud to support the High School Jazz Band Showcase for a sixth straight year,” says John Freund, Education Law Practice Chair for KingSpry, “Arts Quest does a fantastic job bringing together top talent from schools throughout our area and we are thrilled we get to listen as these students demonstrate their musical achievements.”
The SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase is a music-in-education program of ArtsQuest and the Moravian College Music Department’s Jazz Studies Program and is made possible thanks in part to King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC, in association with 69-WFMZ-TV and Greenleaf Productions.
For more information, please visit www.steelstacks.org or call 610-332-3378.
