From left to right- Daxxtyn Williams, Ella Shaffer, Lily Lavallee, Emma Jacot-Descombes, Tori White, Averie Flewelling, Angelica Chavaree-Woodward

On February 1st and 2nd, seven musicians from Rangeley Lakes Regional School participated in the Kennebec Valley Music Educators’ Association Honors Music Festival, which was held at Messalonskee High School.  Students who wished to participate in the festival auditioned back in October, and only the best musicians from over fifteen schools were chosen.  Once selected, the students were given choral pieces to learn, and spent the majority of the two-day festival rehearsing and perfecting those pieces with the approximately 100 voice choruses.  The high school group was led by Francis Vogt, Director of Choral Studies at The University of Maine, and the middle school was led by Kevin Rhein, music teacher at Messalonskee High School.  The seven participating Rangeley students, were Lily Lavallee (9), Ella Shaffer (9), Daxxtyn Williams (8) and Emma Jacot-Descombes (10), Averie Flewelling (7), Tori White (7), and Angelica Chavaree-Woodward (7).