The following press release if from the Columbia High School Music Parents Association:
Get ready, everyone! This Saturday, January 20, 2024, music band The Local Heroes presents SOMA Rocks, a singer showcase benefiting CHSMPA (aka The Columbia High School Music Parents Association). For each SOMA Rocks concert, The Local Heroes invites their talented neighbors and members of the South Orange and Maplewood community to be guest vocalists. The singers pick the songs and the band prepares and arranges them. This year’s lineup features guest singers that are amazing – Becky Gulsvig, Miguel Cervantes, Lauren Hooper, Manu Narayan, Alex Jones, Allison Posner, Graham Rowat, and Joanna Young – plus The Local Heroes own singers, Charlie Pollock and Diane Davis. The event will be held at the Woodland in Maplewood, New Jersey at 8pm.
Admission to the event is $25 per person. Tickets can be purchased here.
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In addition to our main headliner, The Local Heroes Band, CHS Noteworthy and the Unaccompanied Minors, two of the high school’s a cappella groups will open the event.
There will be a cash bar, with beer, wine and spirits and complimentary light snacks.
And lastly, awesome merch will be sold at the event….all for a great cause….to benefit Columbia High School’s Music Program for our kids!
And big shout out to our growing list of event sponsors this year: Pollock Properties Group, Parker Pohl LLP, Finlay and Gage musical instruments, Dingers, In Tune music, Elefante Music, McGraw Hill Publishing and Sonny’s Bagels.
About CHSMPA
The mission of the Columbia High School Music Parents Association is to promote and maintain an enthusiastic interest in all phases of the CHS Music Program and to facilitate and support its activities. In the past few years, participation in the various chorus, band and orchestra ensembles, as well as music technology has grown by 73% to over 600 students. Our funds fill the gap between what’s in the school budget and what our music teachers.
