“SONGS OF THE PLATTEVILLE SETTLERS” YOUTH CONCERT

We send a huge thank you to UW-Platteville, Platteville Elementary students, and music specialist Kelsey Duss for making our artists feel so welcome in the community. Our concert,”Songs of the Platteville Settlers” connected students with their past, especially the Cornish and German settlers, along with the Native Americans and the African American families who founded nearby farming communities. PianoArtist Benjamin Keating welcomed to the stage accordionist Dennis Smith, tenor Ray Calderon, and the Madison Männerchor, a choir founded in 1852. The concert’s 116 fourth graders joined the event as a spectacular chorus seating in the audience.