{"id":170561,"date":"2026-04-20T05:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170561\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:28:09","slug":"local-high-school-musicians-perform-alongside-allentown-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170561\/","title":{"rendered":"Local high school musicians perform alongside Allentown Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">ALLENTOWN \u2013 Several local scholastic musicians were in the Lehigh Valley this weekend, performing alongside the Allentown Band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Shenandoah Valley\u2019s Josephine Kropp and five North Schuylkill Spartan Band members \u2014 Tanner Quinn, Henry Evans, Autumn Hendricks, London White, and Addison Lesher \u2014 all took part in the concert at Miller Symphony Hall in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-68.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26317\"  \/>SUBMITTED PHOTO<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The band was led by Ronald Demkee, with guest conductor Loras Schissel and featured trombone soloist Scott Shelsta<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The event brings 50 of the best high school musicians in eastern Pennsylvania together to perform side-by-side with the Allentown Band.<\/p>\n<p>        About Author<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/shensentinel.com\/news\/author\/shensentinel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776662889_871_2e56b425378a2337bdf45040b61827f98489d77c537a651218b45abb8a91dad5.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/shensentinel.com\/news\/author\/shensentinel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Shenandoah Sentinel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Shenandoah Sentinel is northern Schuylkill County\u2019s news source, covering news and sports in and around Shenandoah, Ashland, Mahanoy City, Frackville, Nuremberg, and the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tContinue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN \u2013 Several local scholastic musicians were in the Lehigh Valley this weekend, performing alongside the Allentown Band.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-170561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}