News and reminders:

Performances in May

• Gr. 6 Band is participating in the Esquimalt / Spectrum Area Gr. 6 Band Festival on May 9th!   Info letter and permission form available here.  
• Jazz Band is off to Colquitz MS to play in the Capital City Jazz Festival on May 14th.  Info letter coming soon!

April was a great month!

• Congratulations to all of the groups who performed at Music Festivals in April.
• Shoreline's Choir earned the award of "Most Outstanding Public Middle School" at the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festivals.
• Shoreline's Junior Strings performed very well at the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival, earning some excellent praise from the adjudicator.
• Shoreline's Int/Adv Strings and Gr. 7/8 Concert Band received ratings of "Superior" at the Vancouver Island Band Festival in Port Alberni.  These are the highest ratings earned by Shoreline in the last six years. Although it's logistically impossible to go, both groups also received invitations to the Nationals in Ottawa.