Warwick Academy has always had an excellent music programme and so many of our alumni remember being in the music stream.

Over the years the music department has grown and continued to improve.

The Warwick Academy Jazz Band is in huge demand around the island being asked to play for corporate events, concerts, private parties and weddings. Former Head of Music Mr Kent Hayward started the jazz band in 2003 and it continues to flourish under the new music teacher Conrad Roache.

This Saturday, February 25, the jazz band is set to get our feet a tappin’ at a jazz extravaganza in the theatre at BMDS, and only a handful of tickets are left.

Daylesford provides a wonderful intimate setting for dinner and drinks beforehand and then into the theatre, with the talent of Benjamin Pettit and Brady Cordeiro on Trombone, Finn Smith on Trumpet, Louise Crawford and Jack Thorpe on alto saxophone, Giovanni Hollis and Jude Snelling on tenor saxophone, Samuel Brangman on drums, Cassandra Roberts on bass and Asha Symons and Cristin Rayner as amazing vocalists.

We are also really lucky to have multitalented teacher Richard Cunningham join the band on trumpet and music director Conrad Roach will tinkle the ivories on keyboard.

These talented students are being joined by local professional players Raymond George, Shelton Bean and Sheila Smith, which gives the students an amazing opportunity to learn from some of the best.

To add to the excitement to the night Mr Brian Swan is having his Electric Strings Group premier his own composition The Present Dystopian Reality.

What speaks volumes for the music programme is that Finn Smith, Samuel Brangman, Casandra Roberts all play in the electric strings group as well as the jazz band. Connor Hay, David Proctor, Katarina Thompson, Abigail Jones, Cara Mallon make up the rest of the group. There will be a silent auction with holiday homes, hotels and goodies.

All the proceeds are going to help the jazz students go to Litchfield Summer music camp, help pay for private music lessons for those who are in financial need and also for musical instruments for the music department. So if you love the sound of jazz and want to hear some of the island’s best youth jazz players, join us for an Evening of Jazz at Daylesford Theatre.

Tickets are available from www.ptix.bm