Skip to main content
Marketing and Communications

MSC Southeast News and Events

Back to the Full Blog

Share this article:         

News and Events

Keeping you in touch with MSC Southeast

Strings, Winds & Brass concert fills The Sheldon with student talent

 Permanent link   All Posts


The halls are alive... with the sound of music

 Southeast Technical musical instrument repair students showcase their talent at The Sheldon Theatre at "Strings, Winds & Brass"   

Strings, Winds & Brass - 2015

Strings, Winds & Brass
Saturday, March 28, 2015
7 pm (general admission, doors open at 6:30 pm)
Ticket information: Student tickets are only $5 at the Red Wing campus bookstore, sponsored by Red Wing Student Senate. Regular price advance tickets are $14.50 adults, $8.50 students (add $3 if purchased day of show).*

View a Facebook album of the day-of-show rehearsal
View a Facebook album of the 2015 Strings, Winds & Brass performance 

Every year Southeast Technical's talented college students (and handful of employees) audition for the college's variety showcase. This year, those who were selected to perform were featured in Strings, Winds & Brass at The Sheldon on March 28.

"The auditions were judged by a panel that included musicians, media, education, and entertainment professionals. We had 23 wonderful acts audition and the judges selected 15 of them to be featured in this year's performance," said Jo Poncelet, Southeast Technical Dean of Academics.

Southeast Technical's world-renowned band, guitar, and violin repair programs attract talented musicians from across the United States, from as far away as West Virginia, Texas, Colorado, and California. With everything from hurdy-gurdy to sousaphone to electric bassoon by composers ranging from Wolfgang Mozart to Taylor Swift, the concert presented a musical tour that surveyed the range of strings, winds and brass - hence the name of the show! 

The 2015 featured performers were:

  • Carrie Allen - solo poet
  • Chamfered - hurdy-gurdy, hammered dulcimer, electric bass and guitar
  • Cymbalic Brass - trumpet, six trombones, and drums (pictured above)
  • The Dentists - trombone, sax, bass, and drums
  • Currren Effinger - singer-songwriter with guitar
  • Flatt & Square - fiddles, bass, guitar, and mandolin
  • Kyle Nelson - solo electric guitar
  • Pushing Aether, electric hurdy-gurdy, electric bass, and drums
  • Red Rot'n Rhythm - trumpets, saxophones, trombones, and sousaphone
  • Ridiculous Reeds - bassoon and oboe
  • Triple A-Team - clarinet, flute, and oboe (pictured above)
  • Willie G. - electric bassoon with loop effects pedal
  • Winter Birds - string bass, guitar, fiddle (pictured above)
  • Wolf and the Gang - clarinet trio

View a photo gallery of our musicians (dropbox folder)

*$15.50 adult and $5 college student tickets available in the college bookstore. Regular price tickets are available at The Sheldon: call 651-388-8700, toll free 800-899-5759, visit the box office, or go to www.sheldontheatre.org.  All tickets are general admission; doors open at 6:30 day of show.