Petersburg music teacher and conductor Chelsea Corrao and the Jazz band pose for a group selfie during 2026 Region V Music Fest, on Saturday, April 11, 2026, in Ketchikan. For the fourth year in a row, the Jazz band received all three superiors.
In early April, Region V Music Fest took place in Ketchikan, bringing southeast Alaska music together in one spot for a few days. Petersburg, which brought 40 students to the music fest, had been working tirelessly on various forms of music for this event, full of different languages.
"Our jazz band has been working on a few different tunes that are big band swing, a funk and a Latin piece," music teacher Chelsea Corrao said. "Choir, we did a lot of foreign language, we had a Spanish piece and Norwegian, technically Swedish, followed by an Appalachian folk song type of thing."
For choir, all o...
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