JHS hits the stage with Friday Night Live

By Pete Fontaine
Posted 3/30/17

If you'd like to win some money - and have some laughs - plan on being inside the Johnston High School Auditorium tomorrow night beginning at 7 o'clock. That's where the Johnston High School Music Department will present what Chairman

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JHS hits the stage with Friday Night Live

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If you’d like to win some money – and have some laughs – plan on being inside the Johnston High School Auditorium tomorrow night beginning at 7 o’clock.

That’s where the Johnston High School Music Department will present what Chairman Ron Lamoureux called “an evening of tasteful and funny skits to raise money for our scholarship and travel endowment fund.”

The event has officially been named FNL – Friday Night Live – and is open to the public at the small fee of $10.

Lamoureux, who also directs the award-winning JHS matching Panthers Band – and department’s orchestra – mused: “Also, because we have so many talented kids in our program that love to be on the sage in capacities other than playing an instrument or singing, that’s why we’re hosting this night.”

The fundraiser, which Lamoureux and his fellow JHS Music Department colleagues Oliver Reid and Matt Gingras who have the popular Panthers’ program growing and near the top of similar school music groups in the state, also wanted it known “All our kids have a great sense of humor.”

He announced that the curtain will go up promptly tomorrow night at 7 o’clock and the JHS Music Department will present several original and adapted sketches that he said “are sure to make the audience road with laughter.”

Lamoureux said FNL will also feature some musical acts throughout the show while adding “Abby Rain and Isabella Batista will each have a turn on the stage” and “we have a band with a Latin flavor that will bring down the house.”

“We spend so much time with our students drilling concert pieces, working for a more mature and professional sounds,” Lamoureux said of the work the JHS music teachers do with their talented students, “it will be great to see the kids just have a good time on stage making people laugh.”

Part of tomorrow night’s FNL proceeds will also help fund the JHS choral groups, band and jazz band’s trip to Virginia during April break where they’ll compete in the highly-acclaimed and nationally-famous Music in the Parks Festival.

The Lamoureux-directed JHS band will also participate in the Rhode Island Music Education Association (RIMEA) Band Festival on April 27 and that the music department’s next full concert will be held on Thursday, May 11 inside the JHS Auditorium.

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