Gold Tones Jazz Orchestra

Mr. Chris DeMarco, Conductor

GOLD TONES NEWS
Mr. DeMarco has been invited to be a presenter at the 75th Annual Ohio Music Education Association Professional Conference in Columbus, February 8-10, 2007.  The Gold Tones will serve as a demonstration group for the workshop, which will be Thursday, February 8th from 5:15-6:15 p.m.  Please stay tuned for more details as they develop.

The Gold Tones will be traveling to the Lakeland Jazz Festival, at Lakeland Community in Kirtland on Saturday, February 23 for a performance and workshop.  We will return in time for the musical cast to do their thing.  It is free and open to the public.  Parents and family are invited and encouraged to come.  Let us know if you are interested in being a chaperone. 

Mark your calendar for Saturday, March 10^th, as the Gold Tones will travel to Green High School for the Green High School Jazz Festival.   This will be a day and evening affair.  The clinicians will include Mark Vinci and Jim Rupp, North Canton natives.   Mark lives in New York and has been a member of the orchestras of Woody Herman and Maria Schneider as well as the lead alto player for Liza Minelli and others.   Jim was the drummer in the bands of Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson.  Both of these gentlemen have worked with our students in the past and are truly great with the students as well as being incredible musicians.  They will be featured in the evening concert as soloists with the Youngstown State University Jazz Ensemble, one of Ohio’s finest collegiate bands. This promises to be a great day and evening of music.  Information regarding times and tickets will follow.