Sioux City North Student selected to 4A All-State Jazz Band

Congratulations to Grant Hein, North High, on being selected to the 2016 4A All-State Jazz Band. The festival is sponsored by Jazz Educators of Iowa(JEI). The Iowa All State Jazz Bands sponsored by JEI have provided hundreds of students an opportunity to interact with America's leading jazz educators and master musicians. Selection to these groups is by recorded (blind) audition. Students interested in applying submit recordings of their playing using a prescribed - downloadable - etude, samples of improvisation and scales of their choosing. Rehearsals and concert will be held Thursday, May 12th, in Des Moines in conjunction with the annual Iowa Bandmasters Convention.