Our
BPMM Students Have Won Many
AWARDS
and FIDDLE CONTESTS
Many have won or placed highly at
national and state fiddle contests.
One student by the age of 12 had a college
fund started from her CONTEST WINNINGS, had managed to win OPEN CONTESTS
competing against adults and even the Missouri State Fiddling Champion.
She also won the Kansas State Banjo Competition.
Others have recieved the highest
ratings in both public school band contests(where violin was not offered
in the band program)and home school band contests for violin as individual
contestants.Many of our students have gone on to play in bluegrass and
country music bands, and have worked at Branson or other Music Shows and
Theatres.
The program builds self esteem and
even prepares students by developing poise and confidence for accomplishments
in all forms of public relations activities. Several students became Seymour
Apple Festival Princess runner ups and winners of the Miss Congeniality
award competing against students much older. Others have won or placed
in several other padgent type contests, some in conjunction with music
festivals.
Others have achieved scholarships,
and awards for sportsmanship and citizenship in school. Parents say that
they have felt their students were greatly helped by their experiences,
personal accomplishments, and performances as participants in the BPMM
band program. Not only do the students learn to become accomplished musicians,
but are also taught to be reliable, honor commitments, to set and work
to achieve personal goals, and to think positively when confronted with
a task.
The places the student band has
been asked to perform are also accomplishments in themselves. They have
played at the Silver Dollar City American Music Festivals, the Silver Dollar
City Christmas, as a lead in band at the Grand Palace and the Branson Belle,
have played a one hour live radio show, have played during the credits
of Channel 3 TV News, and the band has been interviewed by Channel 10 News
on several occassions. They have also played at the Ozark Empire Fair,
and numerous bluegrass and other music festivals all over southern Missouri,
in Arkansas and in Oklahoma. (The instructor has also played fiddle apart
from the student band on the TV News and in state tourism and bluegrass
festival advertisements in Lexington, KY, Little Rock, Arkansas, and in
Oklahoma.) Blackwell also performs with her BPMM student band at their
various venues.
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