Cass Clayton Writes: Thank You for Helping Us to Raise $130,000 at the Farm Rescue Benefit Concert! Thank you for making the Farm Rescue benefit concert at Orchid Denver on May 6th a HUGE success! This amazing non-profit organization ensures farmers survive and thrive so we all have food security well into the future. Through matching gifts from the Harrison and Clayton families your contributions added to a whopping $130,000! Thank you to everyone who contributed and/or attended!
https://farmrescue.org/
https://www.cassclayton.com
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Highland Ranch’s Ingrid Andress says: I’ll be opening for Stevie Nicks again!! This is truly wild and such an honor. I’ll be in Wisconsin, Texas, and California and I really hope you can make it to one of the shows!
http://www.ingridandress.com
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Children’s Fife & Drum Corps Greets Veterans on Memorial Day in Washington, D.C.
Video Report: Jan Crawford reports. Linton Hall School’s Fife & Drum Corps, made up of musicians as young as 6, greeted veterans on Memorial Day at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., carrying on a tradition that goes back to the American Revolution.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/childrens-fife-drum-corps-greets-veterans-on-memorial-day-in-washington-d-c/
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In early March, CBS Evening News expressed interest in featuring the Linton Hall School Fife and Drum Corps in a storyline for their viewers to air on Memorial Day (Monday, May 29th). CBS will broadcast the Linton Hall Fife & Drum Corps on Monday Memorial Day,
Corps Director, Mrs. Georgia Graves, arranged for the Corps to be filmed at a special practice and events to include a performance this past April at Dulles International Airport for Veterans arriving on an Honor Flight and earlier this month during Mount Vernon’s Revolutionary War Weekend.
Please, plan to tune in and support the Corps as they represent Linton Hall School on this nationwide broadcast!!
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On Saturday morning, May 20, 2023, The Linton Hall School Fife and Drum Corps competed in “Music in the Parks”, sponsored by Busch Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia. This musical event included entries from Elementary to High School students.
Under the directions of Mrs. Georgia Graves, the Corps preformed their patriotic catalog of songs before several esteemed judges at Denbigh High School, Newport News. The Corps was also critiqued while marching/performing in formation.
After the competition, the Corps enjoyed a day with their families at Busch Gardens. The day’s events culminated in an Awards Ceremony where it was announced the Corps received the highest honors for “Music Ensemble” and “Marching” – 1st Place with superior ratings in both categories.
Wow!!
Congratulations to our LHS Fife and Drum Corps, their wonderful families and all of their dedicated instructors.
https://www.facebook.com/LintonHallSchool/
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11-year-old Guitarist Harry Churchill on Britain’s Got Talent Leaves Brian May in Awe with Queen Cover
By Jackson Maxwell, Guitar World / Yahoo
Would you want the world to see a video of you at 11 playing electric guitar?
Even if you were to answer that question in the affirmative, you probably didn’t sound as good at that age as 11-year-old Britain’s Got Talent contestant Harry Churchill did during his recent audition for the popular show.
Wielding an Epiphone Les Paul, Churchill shook off some (understandable) early nerves and took on a medley of Brian May’s guitar parts from the Queen catalog, including the Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You solos.
Even more impressive, though, Churchill put on a heck of a show while doing so, wowing the studio crowd at one climactic point with some behind-the-head shredding, executed while standing directly in front of the show’s judges no less.
Even the notoriously difficult-to-impress Simon Cowell had nothing but kind words for the youngster. “That was a great, great, great audition,” he told Churchill, before voting with the show’s other three judges to move the young guitarist on to the next round of the competition.
The Britain’s Got Talent judges weren’t the only significant figures who had praise for Churchill, though. More still came recently from Brian May himself, who shared a clip of the young guitarist’s performance to his followers on social media.
“Harry rocks!” the Queen guitar legend wrote of Churchill on Instagram. “Had to post this – congratulations Harry Churchill on smashing it tonight on Britain’s Got Talent! Go kill’ em!”
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Finish reading the article here:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/11-old-guitarist-britains-got-205037526.html
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/britains-got-talent-11-year-old-guitarist-brian-may
Photo: Farm Rescue
Kudos to Cass Clayton, Ingrid Andress, Children’s Fife & Drum Corps, Kid Guitarist Harry Churchill on BGT
