Tweet Matt Martindale, band director at Shelby County High School and Columbiana Middle School, has been named a quarterfinalist for the 2022 Music Educator Award presented by the Recording Academyand GRAMMY Museum. Martindale is one…
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Tweet The Shelby County Schools Fine Arts Department, along with the Columbiana Business Council and Shelby County Art Council, are sponsoring ARTS on Main art and music festival on April 24 in downtown Columbiana. The event…
Tweet Yamaha recently announced that it has named Matthew Martindale as an honoree of the newly launched 40 Under 40 music education advocacy program. Martindale, director of bands at Shelby County High School and Columbiana…
Tweet Students from Shelby County High School joined fellow students from 56 schools across the country to design one-of-a-kind ornaments for the 2020 National Christmas Tree display on the Ellipse in President’s Park. These unique ornaments will adorn…
Tweet By: Emily Sparacino – Shelby County Reporter Two Shelby County schools’ music programs have been selected to receive Alabama Arts Education Initiative Grants. Columbiana Middle School’s band program, under the direction of Matt Martindale,…
Tweet Montevallo Middle and Montevallo High schools will both benefit from a $2,500 grant from the Alabama Power Foundation’s Power to Play Arts program. Each school will receive a $2,500 grant to support their choral…
TweetElementary students from school across the Shelby County School District participated in the Imagination Book Fair, which showcased their knowledge of books they had recently read. The third, fourth, and fifth-grade students competed in the…
TweetPaisley Smith, an eighth-grade student at Oak Mountain Middle School, recently was announced as a grade-level winner of the Young Composers Competition sponsored by the Alabama Music Educators Association (AMEA). Smith was one of six…
TweetMontevallo High School senior Rachel Moran recently was a winner in the original poetry category of the 2017 Poetry Out Loud District 3 program, sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Poetry Out…
Tweet Sheikla Blount, library media specialist at Columbiana Middle School, has been named a winner of this year’s national I Love My Librarian Award. Blount is being recognized for her leadership in transforming lives and…
