Thursday, May 6, 2021 4:00 AM Photo provided.
The Top 40 finalists, selected by a new panel of national screeners, hail from 15 states coast to coast. Forty of the nation’s top high school vocalists have been selected to participate in the 2021 Songbook Academy® summer intensive, a week of personal instruction and mentoring from arts and entertainment professionals presented each year by the Great American Songbook Foundation.
Now in its 12th year, the Songbook Academy is the nation’s leading youth music intensive focused on timeless standards from the worlds of jazz, Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley. Typically offered on-site at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, where the Songbook Foundation is headquartered, the program is again shifting to a virtual format this year in response to the logistical and safety issues posed by the ongoing pandemic.