Marblehead Hosting Dramafest at MVMS on March 1st


Marblehead is once again proud to host the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Preliminary Round.

Please come out and support the hard-working students who will come together to compete!  Marblehead will be performing Marat/Sade. Details here...

Click on this link to download and print a copy of the poster for your refrigerator, church bulletin board or place of business.  It's going to be a great show. Student excellence in acting and technical design is recognized at each level of the competition, including the selection of an All-Star Company at the finals. Two schools chosen at the State Festival represent Massachusetts in the New England Drama Festival, the regional showcase of secondary school theatre.

Jazz Band at Berklee High School Jazz Festival

Congratulations to Scott Winship and the Jazz Band! They finished a respectable ninth out of sixteen bands in their division in the Berklee High School Jazz Festival on February 8th!

Berklee College of Music hosts its High School Jazz Festival at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Berklee’s annual event is the largest of its kind in the United States, free, and open the public.

Big bands, combos, and vocal jazz ensembles perform and compete throughout the day. All ensembles are adjudicated by a panel of Berklee’s top faculty and will receive a written critique of their performance. Top-ranked ensembles will be awarded partial scholarships to Berklee’s Five Week Summer Performance Program, and individual students are invited to audition for tuition scholarships towards the full-time program or our Five Week Summer Performance Program.

The day’s events will also include performances by Berklee faculty, tours of Berklee’s campus, open jam sessions, and much more.

Ensembles can perform in competing categories determined by school size, or choose to participate in a non-competing category. All participating ensembles are adjudicated by a panel of Berklee’s top faculty and receive a written critique of their performance.

Marblehead Rocks NE Voices

Marblehead a Cappella groups absolutely rocked the house at N.E. Voices on February 1st, winning every special award, from best rap (Serendipity's Libby Jancsey) to best student arrangement (The Jewel Tones Addy Sleeman) to best solos (Grizzly Freakin' Man Singers Jack Krivit), and more. Luminescence was a winner of the competition and appeared in the showcase on February 2nd. 

Congratulations to all of the amazingly talented students in the MHS aca groups and special thank you to Amanda Roeder and the NE Voices team.

Thanks to Chris VanRemoortel for recording the event!

Show time for Guys and Dolls!

Get your tickets online or at the door. 

Opening night is Friday Dec 13 at 7pm. Then Saturday Dec 14 at 7pm and Sunday Dec 15 at 2pm.

2013-14 MHS Performing Arts Calendar

FoPA is happy to provide this easy to use reference for Band, Orchestra, Choral, a Cappella, Theater, Drama events.

Bookmark or print it out

Student Letter to the Editor in support of MHS Performing Arts and FoPA

Many thanks to MHS Senior Julia Taliesin for her amazing, heart-felt letter to the editor in the Marblehead Reporter this week. We need donations from MHS parents and the wider community to support our incredible, creative students because the Performing Arts have a lasting, far-reaching impact on our students, our families, and our town.

Make your donation now! 

MHS takes part in their first trip to UMass Band Day

Your FoPA donations at work! On October 12th the MHS Band joined more than 3,000 band students from across New England at Gillette Stadium for what band member Alex Kerai described in a great piece in Marblehead Patch as a day where "the excitement never let up."

"The bands watched the first quarter of the game (during which a football came over the net behind the field goal post and hit someone in the band section) and then got in position during the second quarter. Once halftime began, all of the marching band students filed onto the sidelines of the field. They were each in assigned groups (A, B, C, and D) from the morning rehearsal and remained in those groups as they marched on. The UMass band played two songs and then welcomed the 73 high schools onto the field. What followed was unforgettable performance."

FoPA is thrilled to have helped to fund this opportunity. Winship plans to make this an annual event for the MHS Band and has set a swift pace for the band department, rolling out new opportunities and musical adventures for our students. Go band go!

More great pictures from the event: