NWC News Desk

Middle school musicians perform at Feb. 8 Showalter Music Festival

Posted January 21, 2020
By NWC News Desk

Outstanding performers from the Showalter Memorial Music Festival will present a concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in the Nelson Performing Arts Center Auditorium at Northwest College in Powell.

The festival is named in memory of Victor Showalter, a former music professor at NWC, who started the tradition in 1975. Now in its 46th year, the festival has expanded to include brass, woodwind, percussion, guitar, violin, piano and voice students in grades five through eight.

This year’s clinicians are Michael Jaycox, Don Christman, Morgan Grover, Rick Parmer, Lara Moline, Kate Vincent and Carisa French.

The 4 p.m. performance is free and open to the public.

For more information about this event, contact Zach Paris, NWC assistant professor of music and director of bands/instrumental music, at Zach.Paris@nwc.edu or 307-754-6427.

For Northwest College’s full calendar of events, visit http://nwc.edu/events/.