Floyd Dryden Jazz Band gives thanks for travel assistance

Thanks once again to Ron and Kathy Maas for their support of young musicians and their generous support of the Floyd Dryden Middle School Jazz Band! Ron and Kathy have given so much to our community and have recently given a large gift to help our jazz band travel to Idaho for the Jazz Festival. Our community thanks you again, and again! “…and the band played on…”

Thank you also, to Northern Light United Church for its $3,000, Youth Music Education Grant to the Floyd Dryden Middle School Jazz Band. This grant will be used to help pay for travel to and from the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho, this February. With this grant, you are helping to more richly bring the joy of music into the lives of young people!

Michael Bucy,

Floyd Dryden Middle School

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