On Saturday November 6th the St. Croix Middle School students performed at the much anticipated Twin Cities Fine Arts Festival, TCFAF for short. We’d spent the music classes from the beginning of the year preparing the pieces that we were to perform. We sang the songs Bonse Aba with our entire Festival Choir, all of the middle school students, Night of Silence with just the St. Croix Girl’s Choir, all of the girls in the middle school, and finally, , with all of the other schools attending the festival because it was chosen to be the mass number for this year. We were directed by our music teacher, Mr. Pufahl.
We performed our pieces before a judge and over all received very positive feedback; we also took into consideration the tips that she gave us to make our performances even better.
TCFAF was also an opportunity for some individual performances. There were several vocal and instrumental solos, duets, and one ensemble that the students put together. Each performance was judged and scored into a certain category and the performer received the award corresponding to what category they’d been placed in. There was also the best in site award which was awarded to the top scoring performer in each site, vocal and instrumental. This year the Best in Site Vocal Award was given to our very own Erika Rider who sang the song, “Temporary Home” by Carrie Underwood, and Katya Gurgel, who is also one of our students, was awarded the Best in Site Instrumental Award for her flute solo. Those awarded best in site were also asked to perform in the Evening Concert at the end of the festival.
So, our school as a whole did very well at the festival. The Evening Concert was also a great experience; it was a chance for us to perform in front of the students from other schools and their families, and also to watch them perform and learn from them. St. Croix had some very exciting pieces to bring to the table. Our best in site performers also did very well with their pieces at the concert. So, the St. Croix Students brought a lot of great music to the Twin Cities Fine Arts Festival and hope to do the same next year.
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