Review: FHS Winterfest Concert
An evening of music from Foxboro High School's entire music department.
The Winterfest Concert is the culmination of months of hard work by the Foxborough Music Department. With six different groups on the bill, it promises to be an exciting night. The show opens with a jazz ensemble, which warbles its way through a selection of tunes from the first half of the century. I'm reminded of the professional jazz festival I attended in Cleveland, albeit in slightly younger, more nervous form. The arrangement of the famous 1949 hit, “Everyday I have the Blues,” which features vocalist Kathleen Sharpe is surprising simply in the fact that a high school jazz band is performing with a singer. But the song doesn't rely on this novelty; these guys really know how to play the blues. The A Capella Choir performs next. Like …
