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By Sierra Smith Last Sunday, April 21st Atlantic High School hosted their annual Patty Hannon Concert.  Seniors Tiffany Braukman and Shelby Cooper were awarded the Patty Hannon Scholarships.  Braukman and Cooper will be receiving 500 dollars a year for four years from the Patty Hannon Trust. Senior Tiffany Braukman comments, “I feel honored that I [...]

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By Kristin Johnk Sophomore Ben Parker has been selected as the 2012-13 AHS marching band drum major after last week’s auditions. Seven band members including Justin Somers, Skylar Ihrke, Ben Parker, Monica Brewer, Breanna Kixmiller, Brecklyn Carey, and Mark Stinn auditioned on Friday morning (April 12) to become the next drum major for the marching [...]

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By Josh Schorle On Saturday, April 20, the Atlantic show choirs will perform their contest set as well as a brand new set for Show Choir Blast. The choir seniors will also be featured as they sing their final senior solos. This year’s theme is “Music of the Decades.” The freshman girls (Treble Makers) will [...]

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By Josh Schorle Premiere Show Choir brought home the third-place trophy from the Emmetsburg “Extravaganza” show choir competition Saturday, March 3. Six schools, including Atlantic, competed in the 3A division. This was the first time Premiere has performed at Emmetsburg. Senior Danielle Lambert said, “I could not be more happy with how we did this [...]

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By Josh Schorle This past weekend, Premiere show choir traveled to Sioux City to compete at a competition hosted at Bishop Heelan Catholic High School. They placed fourth out of six schools in the 3A division. Senior Eric Renner said, “I felt like everyone said it was our best performance, but personally I thought it [...]

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By Lexi Allen and Lisa Gearheart Atlantic Jazz Band traveled to Council Bluffs to participate in The Bluffs Jazz Festival on Saturday, Feb. 16.  The Atlantic Jazz band placed fourth out of the six jazz bands that performed. “The band played very well and barely any mistakes were made,” said Atlantic High School band director Jarrod [...]

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By Kristin Johnk Atlantic High School will be one of the eight schools hosting the Iowa High School Music Association (IHSMA) State Show Choir festival on Monday, Jan 28. AHS choir director Jennifer Gaesser said the IHSMA director assigned show choirs to eight different sites for the festival, one including Atlantic. Schools will come to [...]

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Swing-in, on Thursday, Jan. 14 at Atlantic High School is a concert of the show choirs and the jazz bands. Show choir (originally called ‘swing choir’) is a group  of people who sing in choirs and dance, sometimes within a storyline. Show choir origins as an activity in the United States during the mid-1960s. The [...]

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Students were given the opportunity to audition for the music department’s annual spring musical last week. On Dec. 12-13, 37 students auditioned for the musical, “Guys and Dolls.” Students were able to audition on their choice of either Wednesday or Thursday, and the final cast list was posted on Friday. All students who auditioned were [...]

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