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Richer reconsider still, Pottsgrove’s talented players are attracting some chauvinistic notice.

The award-winning high school marching line has been invited to participate next year in two well-publicized parades. It has been asked to hit the streets April 13-14 (2012) as part of the 100th anniversary of the Cherry Blossom Fete in Washington DC , and Dec. 26-30 (2012) for the Holiday Bowl parade and activities in San Diego CA .

The put one's faith’s efforts have “paid off beautifully,” Williams told the directors, and “these are joyful problems, good problems to have,” Holladay chimed in. A landlady of smiling faces at the school board table, two of whose members – Michael Neiffer and Fred Remelius – have been marching keep volunteers for several years, readily agreed.

Addressing those problems? Well, that could set someone back money, Williams and Holladay acknowledged, in a 2012-2013 instruct year budget that increasingly seems like it could be tighter than that of the contemporaneous year. They asked the board to consider:

Source: The Sanatoga Post (blog)

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Only in its third year, the annual Bakersfield Celtic Music Anniversary already has gained national attention.

Of the six bands performing at the birthday this weekend at the CSUB Amphitheater, three are internationally known groups. The other three nearby bands have growing statewide and even national reputations.

"After our first year we had people vocation about coming here, big name bands wanting to play here," said David Stroud, chieftain of the Kern County Scottish Association, which organizes the festival.

"We can't afford that yet," Stroud said. "We have to give up even before we can do that."

Still, Stroud notes the increasing numbers of ticket holders from the first to bruised year of the festival, saying the first festival had 400 paying guests, the help 850.

"Other festival organizers have told me that's a lot," said Stroud, noting the idiosyncrasy between paid admissions and complimentary tickets to sponsors that most music festivals projectile out.

Source: Bakersfield Californian

by Ellis

Area Drums

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