2024 ILMEA District 5 Concert & Jazz Festivals

Five Richland County High School Band Students Participate in the 2024 District 5 ILMEA Concert & Jazz Festivals

Five student-musicians from the Richland County High School band program have been selected to partake in the 2024 Illinois Music Education Association (ILMEA) District 5 Music Festival on November 4th (Jazz) & November 23rd (band, orchestra & choir) at Eastern Illinois University. These students were selected from a rigorous audition process as the top student-musicians representing 15 schools from twenty counties across the southeast Illinois area.

From left-to-right, the one middle school student, and the two high school band students that participate in the jazz festival on November 4th are Brooklyn Ferguson (eighth grade/junior jazz band), Lila Balding (junior/senior jazz band), and Ethan Zuber (senior/senior jazz band).

From left-to-right, the five RCHS band students that participate in the concert festival on November 23rd are Hadley Heath (sophomore/senior band), Lila Balding (junior/senior band), Jereme Higginbotham (sophomore/senior orchestra), Ethan Zuber (senior/senior band), and Alex Schneider (junior/senior band).