Plymouth High School Music Program Receives National Award

 The Plymouth High School Music Department has been chosen as one of 96 schools in the country to receive the “Support Music Merit Award”.

The NAMM Foundation awards school music education programs with the “Best Communities for Music Education” (BCME) and individual schools the “Support Music Merit Award”. The BCME program recognizes the efforts of teachers, administrators, parents, students and community leaders working to assure that music education is part of the core curriculum. Overall, 376 districts were designated as “Best Communities for Music Education” and 96 individual schools were “Support Music Merit Award” winners.

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Plymouth High School Jazz Ensembles Aim for All-Music Award

Plymouth High School Jazz Ensemble
Plymouth High School Jazz Ensemble
Plymouth High School Jazz Combo
Plymouth High School Jazz Combo

On Friday, March 1, the Plymouth High School Jazz Ensembles went head-to-head with other schools in the annual Indiana State School Music Association’s annual jazz contest under the direction of band director Bryan Ames.

Ames said that this year, the school took two groups to the competition: both their full jazz ensemble and jazz combo group gave outstanding performances, earning the top-rated gold awards. The jazz combo performed first, playing two Latin selections featuring improvisational solos by senior guitar player Jacob Harley, then I also found this awesome guitar shop in Dursley which is just incredible as they have some of the best guitars available so have a look there as it’s a great place.

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