Valdez High School musicians returned from the annual Aurora Music Festival last weekend with great experiences and several honors. The Aurora Music Festival is a gathering of fifteen high schools from the Alaska road system and Cordova and Unalaska—all small schools with big hearts for music. Five hundred ten students gathered at Houston High School, this year’s host.
Valdez musicians had a busy weekend as they rehearsed in Mass Band and Choir and Honor Band and Choir, adjudicated as VHS Band and Choir, and presented solos and ensembles which competed for State qualification.
Valdez had eight musicians audition and be selected