The Young Americans

The Young Americans is a traveling group of college students 

who promote music education in the schools.  

One of Avery's teachers has a daughter who is a Young American 

and she was able to get the tour to come to Ferndale!

The program was open to any 3rd-12th grade student.

(Annalise and her buddy Calli were able to sneak in because of our connections! :) )

The girls were very excited about it!

Turns out there were 300 participants!!!!

The program was 3 days long.

They had workshops after school on Thursday and Friday, and worked all day Saturday 

with a culminating performance Saturday night.

The workshops were in voice, dance, song writing and performance. They focus on the idea of gaining confidence through music and really worked with the students to take risks. 

Grandma and Grandpa were able to be here for their performance on Saturday night, along with an audience of about 700 people!!!  It was PACKED!!!!!!!

The girls were excited and a little nervous!

(Here's a link to a video put together by the Ferndale School District with highlights from the show:

http://ferndalesd.org/young-americans-turn-up-the-music-march-5-2015/ )

It was a great experience...the girls had a blast!