{"id":77139,"date":"2017-01-24T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77139"},"modified":"2017-01-23T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T03:33:54","slug":"mcmea-all-county-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77139","title":{"rendered":"MCMEA All-County Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77140\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=77140\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77140\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/78band2-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 MCMEA 7-8 th Grade All-County Band directed by Lisa Stearns\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/78band2-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/78band2-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/78band2-900x646.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/78band2-400x287.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 MCMEA 7-8 th Grade All-County Band directed by Lisa Stearns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Jan. 20 and 21, 2017, The Madison County Music Educator&#8217;s Association held its annual Winter All-County at Chittenango High School. Students in the sixth-grade chorus, seventh- and eighth-grade band,\u00a0sixth- through<\/p>\n<p>Students in the sixth-grade chorus, seventh- and eighth-grade band,\u00a0sixth- through eight-grade orchestra and high school band rehearsed for two days all culminating in a final concert Saturday at 2 and 3:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The MCMEA sponsors this festival with the help of local schools to bring musicians from across 13 Districts in Madison County together for advanced music-making and the opportunity to work with guest<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77141\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=77141\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77141\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77141\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6chorus-Version-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The 2017 MCMEA sixth-grade All-County Chorus in a dress rehearsal.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6chorus-Version-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6chorus-Version-3-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6chorus-Version-3-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6chorus-Version-3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2017 MCMEA sixth-grade All-County Chorus in a dress rehearsal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>conductors. Guest conductors and accompanists this year included sixth grade conductor Jennifer Rafferty (Cortland City Schools) and Aimee Mumford (Pulaski CSD), seventh- and eighth-grade band director Lisa Stearns (DeRuyter CSD), orchestra conductor Mary Coburn (Cazenovia CSD) and Marty Hollister (New Hartford CSD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Jan. 20 and 21, 2017, The Madison County Music Educator&#8217;s Association held its annual Winter All-County at Chittenango High School. Students in the sixth-grade chorus, seventh- and eighth-grade band,\u00a0sixth- through Students in the sixth-grade chorus, seventh- and eighth-grade band,\u00a0sixth- through eight-grade orchestra and high school band rehearsed for two days all culminating in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}