Cliff Huckabee - President, Elementary/General Division
thank Dr. Moya Nordlund from Samford University for partnering with us and hosting the festival at Samford.
The following day from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM (Saturday, October 10th
), we will have a
I hope this message finds every one well after a restful summer. I begin my two year tenure as the President of the Elementary/General Division, and I look forward to serving you. I also welcome Phil Wilson to our Elementary Executive Board as President-Elect as well as Ben and Kristina Sisco as our Music Festival Directors.
Our 10th is coming up on Friday, October 9th, & 5th
Annual Elementary Music Festival 2015
at Samford University. We have over 45 schools committed to participate totaling about 450 4th
grade students from all
over the state. We will have Tiffany English and Andrea Coleman as clinicians, and we
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joint AMEA/AOSA teacher workshop with Tiffany English as our presenter at a local elementary school in the Birmingham area. We will email registration information once it is available. If you are not receiving emails from the Elementary Division, please send us an email at
elementaryamea@gmail.com and we will gladly add you to our email list.
Finally, our AMEA Annual In-service will be Jan 21st-23rd
, 2016 at the Renaissance
Hotel & Conference Center in Montgomery, Alabama. We are excited to have some outstanding clinicians and exhibitors this year. First, we will have Denise Gagne from Theme & Variations with us on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. She will also do a fun evening
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session on Folk Dancing that Thursday night. We will also have Roger Sams from Music is Elementary who will present all three days and will have a Friday night fun session. Both of these clinicians will also have booths in the exhibit hall. This will give us two additional elementary music exhibitors which is something many of you have requested. We also will have two elementary performances in the concert hall along with other sessions of interest to our elementary music teachers. I am very excited about the 2016 In-service and encourage everyone to attend! Please be sure to pre-register and book your hotel rooms at the special conference rate! You can find links to do both online at
www.alabamamea.org.
I am honored to serve our elementary/general division as President, and I look forward to seeing you at one or more of our upcoming events!
AMEA Presidents - Past to Present
1992 Dianne Johnson 1994 James K. Simpson 1996 Johnnie Vinson 1998 Michael Meeks 2000 John McAphee, Jr. 2002 Tony Pike 2004 Becky Rodgers 2006 John Baker 2008 Pat Stegall 2010 Steve McLendon 2012 Sara Womack 2014 Carl Hancock
August/September 2015
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