Nhill College celebrated ‘World Music Day’ on Friday with over 60 students performing.

The Year 7 Bucket Drumming Group welcomed our concert goers with a series of traditional and not so traditional patterns they have been working on in class.

This was followed by the Junior Voices singing, ‘I Am The Earth’, written by Glyn Lehmann in 2008. This tender song has two ‘voices’ that of our Earth and of our Children.

The Year 9 /10 Guitar group played a harmonised version of

‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on acoustic guitars and many have only begun learning guitar this year.

The Junior Band then took to the stage playing their own arrangement of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of this amazing melody making it’s debut in Vienna, May 1824.

Hugo Dufty played (from memory) the very funky and quite difficult, ‘My Little Suede Shoes’ on concert xylophone and The Senior Band continued the entertainment with their own arrangement of Ed Sheeran’s ‘Photograph’.

The concert came to a very fitting conclusion with our most senior student, Reinhard Vix, performing two of his VCE pieces, The Final Countdown (reimagined) and The BATMAN (reimagined).

Congratulations to everyone who performed.

This article appeared in the Nhill Free Press & Kaniva Times, 26 June 2024.