The primary objective of the Choral Music Program at KCKCC is to educate the students and the community about vocal ensemble music through stylistic variety and tonal diversity, based on historical precedent. This objective is achieved by exposing choir members to music of different nationalities and/or cultures and their commitment to recreate a unique tone quality that identifies with the cultural environment of each composition.
 
The KCKCC Vocal Jazz Program takes pride in performing professional-level vocal jazz ensemble literature. The music within today’s program represents a crossover of the jazz and popular music idioms. The students in the Vocal Jazz program learn Jazz Education through a variety of methods. First of all, several of the students take private vocal jazz coachings 
weekly. They also perform music by professional vocal ensembles, arrangements by well-known vocal jazz educators, and learn jazz and popular music standards (both through the ensemble and within the private coachings). Lastly, 2/3 of the vocalists in our program are on full-tuition vocal music scholarship from the college (where they can be any major, but must participate in choir and applied voice). 

Director BIO:
John Stafford II is currently the Director of Choral Music Activities at Kansas City Kansas Community College. He was previously appointed at Millikin Univiersity and Eastern Illinois University teaching music composition, theory and orchestration. He holds degrees from Millikin University, Bowling Green State University, and is completing a doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Among his professional activities, Professor Stafford serves as the Jazz and Show Choir Chair of the Kansas Choral Directors Association; he is also a member of National Association for Music Educators, Jazz Educators Network, and American Choral Directors Association. Also, Stafford was just appointed in August 2014 as the Director of Music at Community Christian Church in Kansas City, MO.

The Standard, is the award-winning contemporary vocal jazz ensemble from Kansas City Kansas Community College. They have recently been invited performed at the national conferences of the Jazz Education Network, the American Choral Directors Association, and the National Association for Music Education. The Standard has also been selected to perform at the Kansas Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop, the New York Voices Jazz Festival, the Real Group Festival, the New York City Jazz Festival at Jazz at the Lincoln Center and has received a number #1 rating at the University of Northern Colorado/Greeley Jazz Festival. Within the last three years, members of the The Standard have won seven Downbeat Magazine Student Music Awards for Outstanding Performance, Live Engineered Recording, Studio Engineered Recording, and Outstanding Soloist in the Community College category. The group has shared the stage with such highly acclaimed artists as Take 6, The New York Voices, m-pact, Carmen Bradford, Dianne Reeves and Marilyn Maye. In December of 2018, The Standard released their first studio recording, Feelin’ Good, and the album has been played on radio stations in over a half dozen states throughout the Midwest. In Spring 2020, The Standard will digitally release their first single recording of Justin Binek’s composition, Reparations, and in Spring 2021, the ensemble will release their second studio album.

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Metal/Hard-core band female fronted/debut album "Hey cap,we've got a situatuation" produced by Andrea Fusini.
We are now writing new stuff.


Marry Me In Vegas was formed in July 2010 by Sara (Italian alternative model) and Valerio (bass player) after being inspired by their passion for current metal-core and melodic hardcore and they officially started to make waves on the Italian hardcore scene in December 2010 with one special ingredient: a sick female screamer!

2011 started with the first recorded tracks which gained MMIV a new, rabid fanbase, attracted by Sara's fury on the heavy growls and the harmony in her cleans. They giged and toured throughout Italy in 2011 and were added to major shows such as the Rampage Fest line-up in Hungary with Claps For Caroline and as support for Texas In July in October.

After 6 months of hard and meticulous work, MMIV entered Fusix Studio and found their style with a stronger sound characterized by metal industry insiders, a mix of melodic metal-core and post-hardcore driven by MMIV's major influences like Parkway Drive, Caliban, and Architects.  The success of the album was lead by the first single “Tortuga”  with a curious and amazing video.

Marry Me In Vegas’ debut album ‘Hey Cap, We've Got a Situation’, recorded, mixed, and mastered by producer Andrea Fusini (Ms White, Upon this Dawning, Ready Set Fall), was self released on October 23, 2012 and contain 8 tracks all about the sea, theatre of many metaphorical stories (pirates, waves, sirens, zombies).

MMIV had constant tour schedule in 2013 throughout Italy and in March 2013 they was on tour in Russia and Ukraine, which took them to share the stage with Caliban in Kiev. 
Meanwhile came out the new video “Mayday” that was a real revelation in music alternative scene.
 
In June 2013 Sara took the stage of the Flame Fest (Milan) with Caliban to sing “We are the many” with them; she appears in their DVD out with the last album “Ghost Empire” (2014). 

The band has actually a new line-up and is working on the new album and an upcoming European tour.

MEMBERS:
Sara Rojec - vocals (screams, growls and cleans)
Valerio Miari - Bass
Riccardo Caccialanza - Guitar
Alessio Reale - guitars & backing vocals
Francesco Milanolo - drums & programming

GENERAL MANAGER:
marryme.invegas@libero.it

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