The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

WAITSBURG – The Southeastern Washington Music Educators Association (SEWMEA) high school mass band and choir will return to Waitsburg on Wed., Oct. 25. Hundreds of high school musicians from small schools all over southeastern Washington will bus in to play and sing together.

Bands and choirs from Touchet to Rosalia, and Kahlotus to Asotin, will practice together all afternoon and perform in an extraordinary concert that evening at 6:30 p.m.

Expert conductors will lead these huge groups. Shawn Bowman, the recently retired Asotin music man, will conduct the MASS Band and Colleen Ochocinsk...