SCHOOL NEWS
What’s All the Palooza About?
By Beverly Perkins fter a difficult year amidst the pandemic, The determined councilman reached out to fundraising has been challenging just the every school to connect with as many music same. However, Plantation City Council educators as he could. The response was overmember Nick Sortal was not discouraged. With whelming as almost a dozen wanted to participate. much zeal, the esteemed Council member was From the Beatles to Beauty and the Beast, the determined to make the second Plantation area’s music educators shared a wide range of Palooza as amazing as the first. Last year, the genres of their many musical favorites. event raised over $4,000 for Feeding South “I like to ask people to tell me about ‘that one Florida and, this year Sortal wanted to at least teacher.’ For me, it was my college band director, replicate the same success. Mike Hanes, at Southern Illinois University. He “I was trying to recruit a popular principal to was always there to lend an enthusiastic word perform as part of a wide range of entries, and and he taught us that if we made a mistake to just she referred me to her music teacher. Then I got keep going,” exclaimed Councilman Sortal. “I think the idea to focus a concert on just our music people who know me can see how I display those teachers,” explained Councilman Sortal. “I want character traits.” this to be a time when Plantation residents realize The virtual showcase aired on Sortal’s that we have talented, caring people when it Facebook page on Memorial Day weekend and comes to music.” all funds benefited Take Stock in Children. For Plantation Palooza 2: The Music Educators’ almost three decades, the non-profit program has Edition featured band directors and music successfully served the community by providing teachers from Plantation’s schools which included mentoring and scholarships to at-risk children. Plantation High School, South Plantation High “Take Stock in Children is thrilled! We raised School, Seminole Middle School, American $6,250 and coincidentally the Take Stock ‘Student Heritage, St. Gregory, Central Park Elementary, of the Year’ is Roche Earl from South Plantation Tropical Elementary, and a few others. High School,” added Councilman Sortal.
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Christian Davis of Central Park introduces his song
Seth Bailen of Imagine Charter plays drums along with a Herbie Hancock classic, “Chameleon.”
Anthony Alfanso of Meadowbrook Elementary performs “Blackbird”
Nick Sortal discusses Take Stock with scholarship winner Roche Earle of South Plantation High
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