{"id":544734,"date":"2010-04-27T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"2406"},"modified":"2010-04-27T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T19:03:58","slug":"freeform-wins-top-awards-at-reno-jazz-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544734","title":{"rendered":"FreeForm wins top awards at Reno Jazz Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><FONT face=Verdana color=#333333><SPAN class=heading3>NEWS RELEASE<\/SPAN><BR>April 26, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact: Frank Murray, 542-4835<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Verdana color=#333333>FreeForm, Columbia Basin College&#8217;s jazz choir, dominated the competition at the Reno Jazz Festival over the weekend in Reno, Nevada.<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Verdana color=#333333>Directed by Dave Cazier, FreeForm was named the Outstanding College Choir among all two- and four-year colleges and universities. Winning the title was a daunting task since FreeForm was the first college to perform in the two-day event. Out of a possible 1,000 points per scoring judge, FreeForm earned 900, 925, and 933.<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Verdana color=#333333>Not only did FreeForm earn the first place award, but all of its soloists received awards for outstanding musicianship. FreeForm was the only vocal group in any classification to receive awards for all soloists, as well as the largest number of awards to any one vocal group.<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Verdana color=#333333>CBC&#8217;s soloist winners included:<BR>Manuel Avila, piano<BR>Michael Douglas, guitar\/vocal<BR>Omar Farias, drums<BR>Luke Noll, percussion<BR>Josh Osborn, vocal<BR>Tracy Rasmussen, vocal<BR>Brian Williams, bass<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Verdana color=#333333>For further information, contact Bill McKay, dean for arts and humanities, 542-5531.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASEApril 26, 2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contact: Frank Murray, 542-4835FreeForm, Columbia Basin College&#8217;s jazz choir, dominated the competition at the Reno Jazz Festival over the weekend in Reno, Nevada.Directed by Dave Cazier, FreeForm was named the Outstanding College Choir among all two- and four-year colleges and universities. Winning the title was a daunting task since FreeForm was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}