05/19/2026
The Valley Had The Blues!
Fri. May 15th, 2026 saw Blues legends John and Darius McKinley come to the school for a morning workshop with our Gr 9-12 Instrumental Music students and our Gr 10 & 11 Guitar students. We learned about The Blues and how it relates so much to our everyday lives, music and culture. We jammed together and then performed in a concert in the afternoon for the rest of the school!
I am so proud of these students and for their hard work getting ready for this performance. Many of these students were performing for the first time, having just learned how to play in February! They acted professionally, looked and sounded fantastic and were well-received by their audience of their peers!
We are so grateful to the for providing this workshop free of charge to the school and our music students.
Thanks, as well go to all the students who participated and helped out with set-up and tear-down (which was monumental and they were fantastic!), to Mr. Hagen and Hospitality students for providing lunch for our visitors, to Mrs. Karn’s for prepping the cafetorium, to Mrs. Van de Slyke for taking videos, to Mrs. Peets for helping out with anything and everything that was needed(!), to all the teachers and students for being such a great audience and to Ms. High and Mr. Vandendriessche for supporting our ideas and events in the Music Department! It was a great day of experiential learning and fun!
Stay tuned for a post about the - which our Music Students are eligible to attend!
