Students from the music program at Multi-Cultural Academy Charter School played to a packed library of parents, supporters, staff and students at their annual spring concert on June 9 .
The students, a mixture of sophomores and seniors, performed a wide variety of songs ranging from classics like Ella Fitzgerald’s At Last to more modern pop songs like Coldplay’s Clocks.
The music program was started two years ago by English teacher Seth Carter and is funded mostly through the Little Kids Rock Foundation and generous donors. Students in the program are taught how to play instruments during the first half of the year and spend the second half of the year rehearsing for performances.
The hard work has paid off this year when a group of students from the program won the annual Little Kids Rock songwriting contest for their original song, Get Music.
Anjenae Rodgers, 16, never played an instrument before and is now the school’s only bass guitar player.
“When I am on stage, I feel like I am a different person, I don’t notice everyone there, it is just me on stage,” Rodgers said.
The concert aptly ended with Seasons of Love from the musical Rent as students belted the number to a rousing applause.
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