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Nine HHS musicians chosen for European tour

Nine students from Hendersonville High School and one HHS graduate will join the North Carolina Ambassadors 2015 European Music Tour, which will take 93 of North Carolina’s top youth musicians to play in concerts in seven European nations this summer.

Led by Hendersonville High’s director of bands and N.C. Music Ambassadors tour director Fran Shelton, HHS students will join the rest of the Ambassadors in Charlotte for rehearsals June 23 and 24 and depart for London on June 25.

The band will perform in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, and will also travel to Italy and France. Their 90 minute performances will include marches, Disney selections, overtures, pop music, Beatles tunes, and end with Stars and Stripes Forever. The band members will return to the United States on July 10th.

NC Music Ambassadors from Hendersonville High are: Mallori McFalls (flute), Reid Gudger (tuba), Andrew Hein (percussion), Christian Holt (trumpet), Joanna Guy (trumpet), Brian Kurtz (trombone), Royster Strickland (trombone), Andrew Jenkins (horn) and Franklin Blackwell (horn). Miranda McFalls, a 2010 HHS graduate, will serve as the trip's photographer.

Area schools that have performing students include T.C. Roberson and McDowell high schools. A total of 118 staff, students and parents will represent North Carolina on the summer tour.