Music Festival For State Coming To Houlton Maine!

Here's how much work is done behind the scenes with the Houlton Maine music program and help from the parent's group, the Music Boosters. Houlton is hosting the State Vocal Jazz festival on Saturday, April 4.
This is an open letter from music director Rebeccas DeWan

"This is an excellent opportunity for the Music Boosters to raise a lot of money to help high school students get to New York City and continue to support all the ways the boosters help the music department. We will needs LOTS of parent help to make this festival run smoothly. The boosters did an amazing job with All Aroostook - a great warm up for the much larger State Vocal Jazz. Below is a list of ways you can be involved and the contact person for that activity:


1. Selling concessions on Saturday OR baking items to be sold (bring to school Friday individually wrapped).
Contact Peggy McGary (pemcgary@houlton.sad29.k12.me.us) and Janice Good (goodhhm@mfx.net)


2. Selling t-shirts/tickets/flowers/candygrams on Saturday. Denise Hannigan is assembling the flowers (which sold really well at All Aroostook!). We need someone to spearhead the candygrams - purchase items that can be wrapped together (like lollipops), tied with ribbon, etc.
Contact Iliana Moreno (bimoreno@aol.com)


3. Set Up and Tear Down performance and rehearsal areas Friday afternoon and Saturday night.
Contact Mary Beth DiMarco (dimarco_mb@yahoo.com)


4. Everything else! We need adults to work at the registration table, tally and print awards, time performances, be judges' attendants, make food for the judges' room, attend doors to performance areas.
Contact Michelle Daigle (mmmdpt@yahoo.com) and Mary Jane Cleary (scleary@pwless.net)


A big thank you to the parents listed above for organizing different aspects of the festival! As soon as we know the schedule for the HS Show Choir and JH Show Choir (Cast of Everything's Groovy) to compete, we will post times on our website, in case you are interested in seeing it.

Rebecca DeWan
5-12 Vocal Music, MSAD #29
7 Bird St, Houlton, ME 04730


www.sad29music.org
207-532-6551
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Houlton Maine is the county seat for Aroostook County, largest of the state's 16 counties. It's zip code is 04730. The area code for all of Maine calls is 207.
The GPS Coordinates for the town are:
Latitude: 46.135091
Longitude: -67.910906
Elevation: 357
Time Zone: Eastern (GMT -05:00)
Day Light Savings: Y
Other towns included in our zip code 04730
HOULTON
HODGDON
LITTLETON
HAMMOND
LINNEUS
LUDLOW
Current Population: 8,801
2000 Population: 10,585
Households per Zip Code: 5,065
Average House Value: $59,100
Avg. Income Per Household: $27,419
Persons Per Household: 2.41
White Population: 10,097
Black Population: 27
Hispanic Population: 48
Asian Population: 35
Indian Population: 334
Hawaiian Population: 6
Other Population: 10
Male Population: 5,067
Female Population: 5,518
Median Age: 39.80 years
Male Median Age: 38.40 years
Female Median Age: 41.20 years
# Residential Mailboxes : 3,652
# Business Mailboxes : 306
Total Delivery Receptacles : 5,066
Number of Businesses: 343
1st Quarter Payroll: $18,170,000
Annual Payroll: $74,881,000
# of Employees: 3,345
110th Congressional District: 02
110th Congressional Land Area: 27326.31 sq mi
Water Area: 1.42194 sq mi
Land Area: 211.78924 sq mi

* Core demographic data is based on information taken from the 2000 Census. Business data is from Business Census 2003 and CBSA data is from December 2006 Census CBSA data.
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