The Fairfax R-3 K-12 Christmas Program was held December 14, 2022, and featured musical numbers by band and choir members, as well as a production of “Elflandia.”
The Fairfax preschoolers don their reindeer gear for the “Reindeer Pokey” at the K-12 Christmas Program.
The 5th grade band “Hot Cross Buns,” “Rolling Along,” and “Jingle Bells.”
The Fairfax 6th grade band played “Santa on the Housetop” and “Angels We have Heard on High.”
The gym was full of elves who helped everyone get into the Christmas spirit.
Payton Woodring and Kierra McDonald sang solos during “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”
The Fairfax 5th-6th grade choir sang “The Holiday Tango!” and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree with Jingle Bell Rock.”
The 7th-12th band played “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” “All is Calm,” and “Jingle Bell Fantasy.”
Fairfax R-3 held its K-12 Christmas Program December 14, 2022, in the high school gym.
The 7th-12th band started the evening off with “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” arranged by Larry Kerchner (Kierra McDonald and Payton Woodring provided vocal solos and Chloe Vernon had an alto saxophone solo), “All is Calm” arranged by Robert W. Smith (Amelia Larson flute solo, Trent Kingery trombone solo, and Cowen O’Riley alto sax solo), and “Jingle Bell Fantasy” by James Lord Pierpont and set by James Swearingen.
The 5th-6th choir performed “The Holiday Tango!” by Greg Gilpin and “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree with Jingle Bell Rock” arranged by Mark Hayes.
The high school band played “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!” arranged by Johnnie Vinson.
The preschoolers took the stage and performed to “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker)” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, “Jingle Bells,” “Little Snowflake,” and “Reindeer Pokey” by The Kiboomers.
The 5th grade band played “Hot Cross Buns,” “Rolling Along,” and “Jingle Bells.”
The 6th grade band played “Santa on the Housetop” arranged by William Owens and “Angels We have Heard on High” arranged by Victor Lopez.
The K-4 students performed the musical “Elflandia” by John Jacobson and John Higgins (vocal solos by Patrick Wheeler, Ava Oswald, Zailynn Cook, Alex Pickard, Simon Hurst, and Parker Woodring).
Students who participated in the event include: preschool – Jack Clement, Ivy Daugherty, Case Larson, Wesley Long, Aubree Simmons, Harper Smith, Bristol Sutter, Arya Thomas, Charlie White, and Jackson Zumbrunnen; kindergarten – Lilly Bailey, Maddox Francis, Caiden Hines, Taylor Long, Isaiah Price, Lane Reed, Alex Rhoades, Brently Stevens, and Nash Stevens; 1st grade – Xavier Bradbury, Paisleigh Daugherty, Ayden Harber, Lucy Heck, Jo Hurst, Damon Lambert, Nakeyda Mathew, Joella Meston, Ellee Salmond, Abigail Umbarger, and Garrett Wintz; 2nd grade – Haleena Allen, Addison Bortka, Greenley Grossman, Harper Hicks, Presley Knight, Jonah Long, William Oswald, Alan Pickard, and Eli Rogers; 3rd grade – Eli Auwarter, Mia Galbreath, Adelynn Giddinge, Chevelle Hall, Trevelyan Hicks, Ryann Salmond, and Emmett Umbarger; 4th grade – Zailynn Cook, Simon Hurst, Zach Koop, Brody Landess, Ava Oswald, Alex Pickard, Gabe Rhoades, Joel Vance, Patrick Wheeler, and Parker Woodring; 5th grade – (trumpets) Kaylee Allen, Katie Avrett, Mackenzie Oswald, (clarinets) Geb Burke and Ben Umbarger, (alto saxophone) Alex Wintz and Lela Wright, (tuba) Zander Grossman, (baritone) Delaney Oswald, (percussion) Dominick Bradbury, and Mikayla McDonald; 6th grade – (baritone) Deyton Burke, (clarinet) Brenna Kingery and Aliyah Pearce, (alto saxophones) Riley Koop and Olivia Woods, (trumpets) Caroline Larson and Jude Long (Trumpet), (Percussion) Evan Rogers, and Mylie Folkerts; junior high band – (flutes) Piper Morris, Anna Ohlensehlen, and Kelsey Averett, (clarinets) Lexi Brown and Carley Graham, (bass clarinet) Erin Eyman, (alto saxophones) Chloe Vernon and Connor Miller, (tenor saxophone) Brady Umbarger, (trumpet) Leila Knight, (trombones) Mason Kingery and Jaxson Smith, (baritones) Emma Vance and Lataveon Brown, (tuba) Johnny Pickard, and (percussion) Trent Frohn, and high school band – (flute) Amelia Larson, (clarinet) Payton Woodring, (alto saxophone) Cowen O’Riley, (trumpet) Austin Helfers, (baritone saxophone) Joaquin Hill, (baritones) Kendall Kingery and KayDee Duering, and (percussion) Georgia Swinehart, Luke Swinehart, Clayton Vernon, and Kierra McDonald.
