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Fitch jazz band performs at Southern Park Mall
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.Austintown Fitch jazz band director, Wes O'Connor, performed a vocal solo during the band's rendition of You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch Dec. 21 at the Southern Park Mall.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.The bari saxophone player performed a solo during Up On the House Top for the jazz band's concert at the Southern Park Mall Dec. 21.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.The Fitch jazz band students prepared to play the first song of their concert at the Southern Park Mall Dec. 21 - Jingle Bells.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.Scott Williams not only played piano for the jazz band's concert at the Southern Park Mall Dec. 21, but also arranged and sang vocals to Santa Claus Is Coming to Town by Bruce Springsteen during the show.
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Neighbors | Natalie Scott.The Fitch jazz band set up to play outside of the American Greetings card shop for their concert in the Southern Park Mall Dec. 21.
By NATALIE SCOTT
The Austintown Fitch jazz band performed a small concert for people in the Southern Park mall Dec. 21. The jazz band performed many holiday classics, such as Jingle Bells. Up On the House Top featured saxophone, trombone, bari saxophone, and guitar solos, while The Christmas Song had trumpet, saxophone, trombone and piano solos.
The band went on to play Winter Wonderland and A Charlie Brown Christmas (alto saxophone and trombone solos). The band performed a special rendition of You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch in which the jazz band director, Wes O’Connor, did the part of the speaker. The song also offered solos for the tenor saxophone and the trumpet.
The trombone section was featured in Feliz Navidad. Jazz band member Scott Williams performed a vocal solo in his arrangement of the Bruce Springsteen classic, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. The band ended its concert with a funky version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, which contained a bass guitar solo.
“We decided to play in the mall because I thought it would be cheerful for both the students and people in the mall to hear such great music, especially for the holidays,” said O’Connor. “The mall is really in close proximity to our school and we wanted to do something the community would enjoy.”