The ninth annual Raging Red Band Festival is set for Tuesday, March 8, and Wednesday, March 9, at the Reineke Fine Arts Center’s Festival Hall. More than 1,000 students in a total of 28 high school and middle school bands will perform for audiences, judges and guest clinicians Deborah Confredo of Temple University; Roby George of Indiana State University; Joseph Missal, retired faculty member at Oklahoma State University; and Mary Schneider of Eastern Michigan University.

Admission to the event will be charged.

In addition, the Warren Jones Residency in Collaborative Piano and Voice is scheduled for the evenings of March 8-10, starting with a pair of master classes March 8 and 9 at 7 p.m. in Beckwith Recital Hall. During the master classes, Jones will work with a select group of Challey School of Music students to elevate and hone their skills. The residency will wrap up with a final recital featuring Challey School of Music faculty and staff on March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Beckwith Recital Hall. The residency events are free to attend.

Jones is a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music and a former faculty member at the Music Academic of the West. He has appeared at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New England Conservatory, University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the University of Colorado. Jones has performed at state dinners at the White House, and three times he has been the guest of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court for musical afternoons in the East Conference Room at the Court.

The Raging Red Band Festival and the final recital will be streamed at ndsu.edu/music/stream.

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