RUSHFORD-PETERSON SCHOOLS WINTER BAND CONCERT

Middle School Band Director - Jacob Olson
High School Band Director - Burton Svendsen

 6th GRADE BAND:
Christmas Overture (O Come All Ye Faithful, Away in a Manger, O Christmas Tree)
Sugar Creek Saga
Timpalico
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (sic)

7th & 8th GRADE BAND
Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
Tutti Frutti
Bobsled Run
Kingdom of the Sun and Moon
White Christmas

 6th & 7th & 8th COMBINED BAND
Escapade
Pep Rally Rock

SENIOR HIGH CONCERT BAND
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Small Group Combo
We've Got Your Back
A Christmas Festival

 As usual, this is a pleasant concert and possibly one my wife and I will attend even after we no longer have children participating (soon!).

For a small school band(s) the sound is really nice.

I always comment on how obvious the childrens' musical growth is when you listen to the different bands at a concert like this. And this year was no exception. But I did also feel that this was possibly one of the strongest 6th grade performances I've heard in a long time (and no...I don't have a 6th grader).

All in all...very nice.

RAISING SPIRITS - Theatre du Mississippi

storytellers: Taff Roberts, Ray Felton, Margaret Shaw Johnson, Fran Edstrom, Enid Underdahl, Mark Peterson, Ken McCullough. Paul Lindquist, Emily Kurash, Patrick Marek

A fund-raiser for Theatre du Mississippi.  Locals share their own ghost stories.

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This evening had some ups and downs.  There were some really interesting 'true' stories and there were some that seemed obviously phony. Some of these individuals are natural storytellers and others seemed embarrassed to be there.

Mostly these were interesting as those who had real experiences of something that they can't explain were truly chilling.

One person, a journalist, is writing a book about Winona's most famous ghost (from Saint Mary's University) and he read from a couple of chapters.