{"id":22902,"date":"2023-07-10T16:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:57:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T20:57:59","slug":"nafme-apex-arts-commercial-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2023\/07\/10\/nafme-apex-arts-commercial-band\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Association for Music Education invites Apex Arts Commercial Band to Perform at Leadership Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">On June 25 in Reston, VA., members of the <strong>Apex Commercial Band<\/strong> (ACB) were invited to perform at the National Association for Music Education Leadership Assembly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The conference was a convening of national music education leaders, Americans for the Arts CEO Nolen Bivens and NAMM Foundation Executive Director Mary Luehrsen were contributors for the NAfME panel discussion on <em>Arts Education and the Creative Economy: Advocating for Impact<\/em>. The ACB performance was the featured performance at the end of the day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">The students who performed are members of ACB as part of the <strong>AACPS Apex Arts Magnet Program<\/strong>. \u00a0They performed an Unplugged acoustic set of new and previously performed music.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Stephanie Wiegand, Chair for the NAfME Council for Choral Education shared: &#8220;We need more of this in our schools, communities, and conferences. Thank you for shining a light on these kids and their amazing work!&#8221; Thank you to <strong>David Kauffman, Senior Manager of the Apex Arts Magnet Program<\/strong>, for sharing this story and his continued work with the program.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Do you have an interest in the arts? <strong>Apply to the Apex Arts Magnet Program at: <a href=\"http:\/\/AACPS.org\/ApexArts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AACPS.org\/ApexArts<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22918\" src=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-2.jpg 1809w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-2-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-2-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-2-1536x770.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-2-540x272.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22919\" src=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-4.jpeg 1779w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-4-300x183.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-4-1024x623.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-4-768x468.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-4-1536x935.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22921 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Apex-NAFME-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Louis Nesbitt, PDM Department<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need more of this in our schools, communities, and conferences. Thank you for shining a light on these kids and their amazing work!&#8221; &#8211; Stephanie Wiegand, Chair for the NAfME Council for Choral Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":22920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,139,130,172,334,348,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadneckhs","category-broadneck_stories","category-aacps_story","category-student_stories","category-specialty","category-studio39","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22951,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions\/22951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}