At the end of the semester public performances are encouraged. The Wind Ensemble is open to all students, faculty, staff, and members of the nearby community interested in rehearsing and performing concert band music. Credit is available for degree students. The Jazz Ensemble is open to all students faculty, staff and nearby community people by permission of instructor. The band performs music regularly during the school year varying from contemporary jazz-rock to big band swing.
Credit is available.
Emphasis is placed on the total guitarists interacting with a rhythm section in a non-keyboard setting. Concurrent private instruction and final project required. The Kekeli West African Drum and Dance Ensemble performs the traditional music and dance of the peoples of West Africa. We foster an intensive experience of African culture and arts through rehearsals and concerts with master artists from Ghana. Students gain an inner knowledge and feel for African expression, and perform ceremonial, social, funeral, harvest, warrior, and recreational styles.