JERRY CITY — The Elmwood Local Schools will be hosting its annual Spring Arts Festival on Sunday from 1
to 5:30 p.m. This event will showcase artwork from students in grades 5-12 and include such media as
drawing, painting, photography, ceramics and 3-D.
The art portion of the show is under the direction of Christina Meyer and Meagan Benner.
In addition, the music department will be showcasing each of its ensembles throughout the afternoon. 
Performances will take place in the high school gymnasium as follows: starting at 1 p.m. and lasting 15
minutes each will be the fifth grade choir, fifth grade band, sixth grade choir and sixth grade band.

At 2 p.m. the Troubadours will perform followed by the seventh grade band at 2:20 p.m., seventh and
eighth grade choir at 2:50 p.m., high school concert choir at 3:40 p.m. and high school concert band at
4:15 p.m.
In conjunction with the Arts Festival, the music department is hosting a Troubadour Reunion which will
bring back approximately 80 former singers from the select show choir from 1975-2014 to put on their own
performance.
The singers will be rehearsing all day Saturday and then do their portion of the concert beginning at
4:45 p.m.. The Troubadour Alumni will be performing: Elmwood Alma Mater, “California Dreamin’,”
“Friends,” “Yearnings” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”
Two special numbers are also planned for the Arts Festival.
The first is a piece commissioned for Dean Bell’s final concert at Elmwood. The song, Master of Music,
was written for the event by notable composer Joel Raney, and will receive its world premiere on Sunday
with the combined Troubadours, Troubadour Alumni and concert choir. The song is a festival piece written
for eight part choir with piano, brass quintet and tympani, based on the poem Master of Music by Henry
VanDyke and will be performed as part of the Troubadour Alumni concert.
At the conclusion of the entire festival, the same combined voices will join with the high school concert
band to conclude the day with a rendition of John Williams’ “America…The Dream Goes On.”
The musical portion of the day is under the direction of Christine Rohrs, vocal director, Justin
Brinkman, instrumental director, and Bell, Troubadour Alumni director.
“Cancer Take A Seat” is a celebrity auction event designed to raise money for the Wood County American
Cancer Society. Chairs decorated by the students and staff of the Elmwood Schools will be on display in
the auditeria throughout the day and will be auctioned off by guest auctioneer Dale David beginning at 3
p.m. This portion of the day is under the direction of Michele Story.