Sophomore Afua Yeboah, junior Samantha Calderon, and senior Darrel Kidd are the talented vocalists selected to advance in this national contest. The Feinstein Competition was established in 2009 and is a based solely on music from Broadway, Hollywood musicals and the Tin Pan Alley era of the early to mid-twentieth century. If any of the students are winners in the regional round, they will participate in a week-long vocal “training camp” before a final competition in June 2012 for cash awards and the chance to perform with Michael Feinstein onstage in New York.Lawrence Del Casale, the Peekskill Schools music teacher and chorus director who has been working with the young vocalists to prepare them for the competition, observed: “We can all be very proud of these hard-working and talented students who have worked so hard for this opportunity. I am so pleased that they will have the chance to perform in
a bigger arena.”