Vocal Jazz Wins 2024 Hampton Fest Sweepstakes
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GHS Vocal Jazz was a big winner at the University of Idaho’s 57th Annual Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival April 19-20! Congrats to Mr. Saunders and his 2nd-period singers.
Some 80 Garfield students across four ensembles performed at the event in Moscow, Idaho. Jazz Ensemble 1 also was a finalist, competing in the “Sweepstakes” evening concerts, before a packed arena of fans from schools around Idaho and Eastern Washington.
Garfield Director of Bands Jared Sessink reported that as students entered to listen, a chaperone overhead a kid say to his friend, “Can you believe Garfield is in this building right now!?”