Featured Image: SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase – by Dani Nightlinger

BETHLEHEM, PA—High school bands from Pennsylvania and New Jersey return to the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café Feb. 23 and March 8 for the ninth annual SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase presented by King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC. Tickets for the event’s preliminary rounds are $7 per session and on sale now at www.steelstacks.org and 610-332-3378. 

The 17 jazz bands this year will perform in front of a live audience and a judging panel. Top bands from the preliminary rounds will then advance to the finals on March 29, 4 p.m. The showcase is made possible in 2020 in part by a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant supporting ArtsQuest’s jazz programming for the region.  

The complete list of SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase participants is:

 

Feb. 23, 12 p.m.

North Penn High School Navy Jazz Band

Warren Hills High School – New Jersey

Phillipsburg High School – New Jersey

Brandywine Heights High School

North Penn High School Columbia Jazz Band

 

Feb. 23, 4 p.m.

Wilson High School

Easton High School

Saucon Valley High School

Bernards High School – New Jersey

The Hill School

Kutztown High School

 

March 8, 2 p.m.

Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts

Delaware Valley High School – New Jersey

Freedom High School

Dieruff High School

Central Bucks High School South

Quakertown Community High School

 

The SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase is a music-in-education program of ArtsQuest and the Moravian College Music Department’s Jazz Studies Program and is made possible thanks to King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC. For more information, please visit www.steelstacks.org or call 610-332-3378.