Warren County's annual summer music school wraps up Friday.
The 3-week school has 176 students, 21 faculty members and many interns. Many of the students are from our region. But some of the students come from as far away as Florida and South Carolina.
The students select 5 classes. Music is the focus. But there are also classes in art, dance, and theatre. The school began as a band camp in the 1950's, then grew to include all the arts in the late 1980's.
Director Ann Mead said, "The concept of this school is to bring the arts to the community in Warren County and to allow the students to be immersed into the arts, to find enjoyment in the arts because the arts are a life long avocation."
The students pay tuition. But funding also comes from state grants,. foundations, corporations and private individuals.