West Orange County's Ocoee High School and HAPCO Music Foundation Celebrates the Essence of Jazz Music
Ocoee High School and HAPCO Music Foundation are hosting the 3rd annual Sunshine Jazz festival. The festival is entertaining and educational where music artists from all over the nation to come and celebrate the art of Jazz music.
- Orlando, FL (1888PressRelease) January 15, 2013 - Ocoee High School and HAPCO Music Foundation hosts 3rd Annual Sunshine Jazz Festival February 1st and 2nd 2013
Ocoee, Florida-The Sunshine Jazz Festival presents nationally-known artists and musicians to create both an entertaining and educational atmosphere for aspiring youth in arts education. Communities and organizations across the nation come together with Ocoee High School Band and HAPCO Music Foundation in honoring jazz music.
This year's events strongly enforce "Building futures through music and education for deserving youths", a vision of Ocoee High School Band Director Bernard Hendricks Jr and Town of Oakland's Commissioner Joseph Patrick McMullen, President and CEO of HAPCO Music Foundation. Through a clinic session that will be held during the day, middle and high school band students will have the opportunity to perform and receive a professional evaluation from professors from top Florida Universities. During the evening, many talented bands and artists such as The University of Florida Gator Jazz Band, Blu-Tet Quartet, Robert Rucker of NYC, Ocoee High School Jazz Band will grace the stage along with many others.
The Sunshine Jazz Festival is one of Orange County's most classic events and everyone is encouraged to participate in this celebration of Jazz music and music education.
Who: Ocoee High School Band and HAPCO Music Foundation
What: Sunshine Jazz Festival
When: February 1st and 2nd
Where: Ocoee High School
Why: To promote music education and celebration of Jazz music
HAPCO Music Foundation, Inc. (HAPCO) is a nonprofit organization that has been serving the needs of youth in arts education since 1999. Since its incorporation in 2002, the goal of HAPCO is to raise the awareness of the importance of arts in education, with a specific focus on the underserved youth of West Orange County, Florida. In this effort, we work directly to support educational arts programs, particularly in low-income communities, in exposing youth to the arts and obtaining resources for participating in arts activities. HAPCO is dedicated to serving and providing education, hope and support to students who are actively engaged in or seeking to develop a professional career in the arts or who may be using the arts to support the continuation of their education in other areas. Our vision is to enhance the ability of key art institutions in the cultural community to become more effective at creating and delivering programs to the public.
More information about the Sunshine Jazz Festival is available online at www.HAPCOpromo.org.
View additional events sponsored by HAPCO Music Foundation at http://hapcopromo.org/wpsite/?page_id=17.
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