{"id":128786,"date":"2024-03-25T22:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128786"},"modified":"2024-03-25T22:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T02:47:41","slug":"steelstacks-high-school-jazz-band-showcase-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=128786","title":{"rendered":"SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley, PA, March 25, 2024 –\u00a0ArtsQuest<\/a>\u00a0announces the results from the\u00a012th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase presented by KingSpry Attorneys & Counselors, in partnership with Moravian University and official media partner Service Electric Cable TV.\u00a0Outstanding soloists from any school won a scholarship to the Moravian University Summer Jazz Camp for 2024.<\/p>\n

FINALS: RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winner (1st<\/em>\u00a0place):\u00a0 North Penn Navy Jazz Band<\/strong><\/p>\n

Section awards:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Reed Section: Easton Area HS Jazz Band<\/p>\n

Best Trumpet Section: North Penn HS Navy Jazz Band<\/p>\n

Best Trombone Section: Quakertown Community HS Jazz Band<\/p>\n

Best Rhythm Section: Upper Moreland HS Jazz Band<\/p>\n

Solo Awards:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Jazz Saxophone\/Woodwind: Jesse Hasting (alto sax) Kutztown<\/p>\n

Best Jazz Trumpet: Logan Bigelow North Penn<\/p>\n

Best Jazz Trombone: Richard Strader Quakertown<\/p>\n

Best Jazz Rhythm Soloist: Akshay Krishnan (guitar) North Penn Navy<\/p>\n

Best Overall Jazz Soloist: Carter Stein (tenor sax) Easton<\/p>\n

About ArtsQuest<\/strong><\/p>\n

ArtsQuest\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0mission is to provide access to exceptional artistic, cultural and educational experiences using arts and culture as key elements of economic development for our urban communities. ArtsQuest\u2122 supports this mission via the presentation of performing and visual arts, film, arts education classes and outreach, youth programming and cultural events.\u00a0Through festivals such as its flagship event,\u00a0Musikfest<\/a>; the\u00a0Banana Factory Arts Center<\/a>; and the ArtsQuest Center at\u00a0SteelStacks<\/a>\u00a0arts and cultural campus, ArtsQuest\u2019s programming reaches more than 1.9 million people annually. The organization\u2019s programs and events, over 50% of which are free to attend, have a combined economic impact of more than $136 million annually in the region.<\/p>\n

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Information provided to TVL by:
\nJennifer LoConte
\nDirector of Communications
\nArtsQuest
\nhttp:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley, PA, March 25, 2024 –\u00a0ArtsQuest\u00a0announces the results from the\u00a012th\u00a0Annual SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase presented by KingSpry Attorneys & Counselors, in partnership with Moravian University and … Continue reading SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase Results<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5717,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bethlehem","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/artsquest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}