Members of the Sandwich Middle High School Jazz band, pictured above and led by SMHS Band Director Alexander Breault, participated in this weekend's All Cape & Islands Jazz Festival in Hyannis. Sponsored by the Cape Cod Music Educators Association, the festival is designed for Cape and Islands students grades 9-12 interested in participating in a Jazz Big Band (reading jazz sheet music with dense harmony) or aJazz Improvisational Combo (emphasis on aural & improvisational music skills) with a group of experienced and enthusiastic peers, excellent workshop leaders/conductors, and supportive music educators. The SMHS ensemble had the opportunity to deftly perform two pieces, "So Nice (Summer Samba)" by Marcus Valle and "Caravan" by Duke Ellington. To see the "Caravan" performance, please click here.
Three of the students also performed in the auditioned ensembles, with junior Daniel Flynn playing drum in the Combo, and senior Angelina Varao and freshman Sofia DiSavino on saxophone in the Big Band. (All three pictured below) All of our students ate it up both on stage and in the workshops earlier in the day, and we are incredibly proud of how they represented Sandwich!
