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RE Combo medals at Berklee Jazz Festival
The RE Combo won honorable mention for the second year in a row at the prestigious Berklee High School Jazz Festival in Boston. One hundred twenty-seven schools from 15 states competed at the Feb. 11 event, considered the biggest high school band competition in the world. Ransom Everglades was only of only two schools from Florida to earn a medal.
Ben Arriola '18, Rafi Jimenez '17, Ryan Tie-Shue '18, Luca Gonzalez-Abreu '18, Jacob Tie-Shue '18, Joon Kim '17 and Leo Menninger '18 competed under band director Jon Hamm. Big bands, combos, and vocal jazz ensembles performed and were adjudicated by a panel of Berklee’s top faculty. Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches also won a medal.
The RE Combo also earned straight A's at the district championship for the eighth consecutive year, advancing to the state event in Pompano Beach on March 31.
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The RE Combo also earned straight A's at the district championship for the eighth consecutive year, advancing to the state event in Pompano Beach on March 31.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.