On April 4, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Minnesingers performed at the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association Festival, and despite this being their first return to the festival in ten years and singing pieces of the highest-rated level of difficulty, they excelled, and were awarded by the association a bronze medal. Congratulations go out to the Minnesingers; their director, Janis Wightman and their accompianist, Melanie Sroka.

You can hear these songs among other choral pieces at the Minnesingers’ spring show, The Beat Goes On, that commemorates the high school’s 50th graduating class. The Beat Goes On will be performed at the high school’s performing arts center on May 9 and 10. Details on this event will follow in an upcoming edition of the Gazette.