Foxcroft Academy Jazz Band earns highest rating at district festival, qualifies for States

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — The Foxcroft Academy Jazz Band earned the highest rating (1) for its performance at the MMEA District Jazz Festival at the Stearns Auditorium in Millinocket on Feb. 12 and has now qualified to compete at the State Jazz Festival in South Portland on March 14.

Photo courtesy of Foxcroft Academy

Foxcroft Academy Jazz Band members
Dexter Canning, left, and Sam Lunn

    Aaron Provost, Adam Baird, Anna Sedlackova, Annie Rich, Caleb Buerger, Camille Bozzelli, Devan Baird, Dexter Canning, Emma Gidman, Fred Libby, James Fagan, Liam Riehl, Marie Hartung, Morgana Vick, Robert Atherton, Sam Lunn, Sam Libby and Sebastian Zepeda all played at the district festival for the Jazz Band, which competed under the direction of Josh Guthrie and Deb Maynard. Canning and Fred Libby both received Soloist Awards while Zepeda, Sam Libby, Lunn, Atherton, Buerger, Rich, Sedlackova and Baird also performed solos.
    Prior to the state festival, the Jazz Band was scheduled to travel to University of Maine at Augusta on March 3 for an all-day visit that will include an introduction to the UMA Music Department, a tour of campus, a brass workshop with Anita Jerosch (principal Bass Trombone in the Bangor Symphony Orchestra) and an afternoon jazz workshop with Steve Grover (award-winning drummer/pianist/composer) and his UMA Jazz on Tour band. This is a reciprocal visit, as UMA Jazz on Tour came to perform a concert and hold a workshop for Foxcroft Academy students earlier this year.