Middle school musicians perform at Showalter Music Festival Feb. 10

POWELL — Outstanding performers from the Showalter Memorial Music Festival present a free concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, in the Nelson Performing Arts Center Auditorium at Northwest College in Powell.

The festival is named in memory of Victor Showalter, a former music professor at NWC, who started the tradition in 1975. Now in its 44th year, the festival has expanded to include brass, woodwind, percussion, guitar, violin, piano and voice students in grades five through eight.

This year’s clinicians are Don Christman, Carisa French, Morgan Grover, Ruth Henderson, Lynell Kruckeberg, Elisa Olson, Rick Parmer and Katie Sears.

For more information about this event, contact Craig Olson, NWC instructor of music and director of bands, at [email protected] or 307-754-6427.