PORT ANGELES — The 60-piece Northwinds Homeschool Band is ready to present its Spring Pops Concert, an evening of music from “Star Wars,” “The Mask of Zorro,” “The Sound of Music” and then some, tonight (Thursday evening).
Admission is free to the 7 p.m. performance at the Independent Bible Church Worship Center, 116 E. Ahlvers Road.
The band of home-schooled musicians age 9 to 18 has had a good year, noted parent volunteer Meghan Maggard.
Seventeen-year-old trombonist Jacob Kennedy of Port Angeles won one of only five solo awards at January’s Clark College Jazz Festival, she said, and the whole ensemble received the three highest scores at the Western Washington Homeschool Band Festival this past March in Seattle.
Dan Tutton directs the nonprofit Northwinds band and in recent years has taken the young musicians to Anaheim, Calif., for the Heritage Festival competition, two Disney Studios recording workshops and a performance at Disneyland.
