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20th Annual Commercial Music Showcase Features Students, Alumni

Rayvon Owen

Monday night Belmont’s School of Music presented the 20th annual Commercial Music Showcase in the Massey Performing Arts Center (MPAC). The annual concert features some of the School of Music’s top commercial performers, and this year’s showcase offered 15-minute mini-concerts from senior Nate Faulkner, junior Sarah Margaret Huff, junior Rayvon Owen and senior Cody Fry.

In honor of the showcase’s 20th anniversary, the evening opened with a special performance of “The Living Proof” with appearances by numerous School of Music alumni including C.T. Blackmore (’07), Kory Caudill (’09), Becki Corcoran Ryan (’01), Melinda Doolittle (’99), Chris Gregg (’02 and ’09) and Master of Ceremonies Frank Rains, Jr. (’92). In addition, current students from the commercial music program were involved as arrangers, instrumentalists, background vocalists and crew members for the showcase.

Click here for additional photos from the 2012 Commercial Music Showcase.

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