Poplar Bluff, Missouri - Dozens of Poplar Bluff High School band and choir students received exemplary ratings at the Three Rivers MSHSAA District Musical Festival held Saturday, March 9, at the Tinnin Center, earning spots at next month’s state festival in Columbia.

 

Receiving one ratings were choir members Eva Bedell, Molly Berry, Ross Dare, Jayvon Holloway and Allison Knowlton for their vocal solos; Isaac Reid, Jayvon Holloway, Jacob Joseph, Michael Joseph, Michael Thom and Michael Allen Ward Jr. in the TTB sextet category; and Eva Bedell, Ross Dare, Jayvon Holloway, Jenna Isom, Michael Joseph, Allison Knowlton, Kerrigan Moore and Michael Thom for SATV double quartet.

 

One rating band performances included Emma Harris, Bailey Odom, Michael Thom and Michael Tiffany for percussion quartet; Adam Black, Cody Daughertee, Blake Millner and Christian Redden for trumpet quartet; Cody Daughertee for his French horn solo; and Samantha Nelson, Layton Sanders and Michael Allen Ward Jr. in the saxophone trio category.

 

Pictured: Top choir students included (top row, left to right) Ross Dare, Eva Bedell, Allison Knowlton and Jayvon Holloway; (middle row, from left) Molly Berry, Kerrigan Moore and Jenna Isom; and (front row, left to right) Jacob Joseph, Michael Allen Ward Jr., Michael Joseph and Isaac Reid. Not present for the photo was Michael Thom.

 

Photo and article submitted by Tim Krakowiak, Communications/Marketing Director, Poplar Bluff R-I School District