Edmunds County Tribune -

The 30th Annual South Dakota North Area Honor Band will present their concert on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 4 p.m. at the Johnson Fine Arts Center on the campus of Northern State University.

Dr. Rolf Olson, director of Bands, Professor of Trumpet, and Chair of the Music Department at Northern State University, is the director for this year’s event.

Two Ipswich students, Lawson Santema and Gavin Wollman, were selected to perform in this year’s Honor Band.

The South Dakota North Area Honor Band was created when area band directors began expressing an interest in providing a regional opportunity for their experienced instrumental musicians.

Upon nomination by their band director, students who auditioned for the 2021 South Dakota All-State Band are seated first in the ensemble, and additional students of high caliber complete the sections. It remains the goal of the directors to increase the interest in instrumental performance and to provide a top-level learning experience for the more advanced high school band students of this area.

Representing 28 schools, approximately one hundred students have been selected to participate in the Honor Band. Participating schools are: Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Christian, Aberdeen Roncalli, Clark, Eureka, Gettysburg, Great Plains Lutheran, Groton Area, Herried, Hoven, Howard, Huron, James Stueckrath; Ipswich, Langford, Leola, Milbank, Northwestern, Selby Area, Sully Buttes, Summit, Warner, and Wilmot.