A couple of local acts take different approaches to holiday music with their latest releases. Singer-songwriter Candace Campana goes mostly contemporary with
Pleasant Valley Intermediate School celebrated Veterans Day on Friday afternoon with a special “Brunch with the Brave” for nearly 200 veterans and students and a schoolwide assembly afterward.
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The Prairie Home Music Department presented its Christmas Program on Dec. 15.
The kindergarten class got things going with “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” by Johnny Marks and “Jingle Bells” arranged by T. and P. Jennings.
The first, second, and third grades combined for “A Holiday of Music” and “Listen to the Jingles” both by Teresa Jennings. The kindergarten came back to join the older students for a rousing rendition of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” arranged by Teresa Jennings.
Fourth grade played recorders. Their selections, both by John Riggio, were “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” and “Fum, Fum, Fum. The fifth and sixth grade handbells performed two more Riggio arrangements, “Good King Wenceslas” and “Deck the Halls.