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2025 EHS Holiday Gala

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Source
YouTube / Everett Public Schools, MA
Date
2025-12-19
Location
Middlesex County, MA
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,747 words · about 10 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001All right, everybody ready? Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, please welcome to the stage high school rock band under the direction of Mr. Ryan. Here we go. Let's go. Bells will be ringing the sad news. Oh, at Christmas to hear the blues. My baby's gone. I have no friends. Wish me greetings once again. What will we sing and night? Christmas carol by candle light. Please come home for Christmas. for Christmas by New Year's night salutation. Sure as the stars shine above, but this is Christmas. This Christmas, my dear, the time of year to be with the one you love. So, won't you tell me you're never more wrong? Christmas and New Year will find you home. There'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain. And I'll be happy, happy once again. Oo, there be

002no more sorrow, no reg. And I'll be happy Christmas once again. And that was Please come home for Christmas. Now we're preparing for the next song by what was it? Elton John. >> Hi folks. I just wanted to say uh thank you for coming al so uh coming out tonight. Sorry. My name is Ryanos. I'm the director for the um uh high school rock band. I just want to give a huge shout out to these students meeting uh two to three times a week, putting in so much work over the past um 3 months. You have no idea how awful it is to start playing Christmas music in September, but then it gets really awesome really quickly when it starts coming together. So yeah, we have one more tune for you. This is Please uh

003step into Christmas by Elton John. Please step into Christmas. Welcome to my Christmas song. I'd like to thank you for the year. So I'm sending you this Christmas card to say it's nice to have you here. I like to sing about all the things your eyes and my can see. Don't hop about the turn table. Oh to Christmas with me to Christmas. Let's join together. Make you want to snow for forever and ever. Even be mer with me. Step into Christmas the emissions free. Take care and all you do next year and keep smiling through the days and we hope to entertain you. Oh, I'll find a way. So, merry Christmas and all of those rais together. We can watch the snow forever and ever. Be merry along with me. The Christmas the emission free.

004Oh. Oh. Welcome to my Christmas song. I like a day for the year. So I'm sending you this Christmas card to say it's nice to have you here. I like to see about all the things you might see. So I'm a father. Oh the Christmas for me to Christmas. Let's join together. Make it one forever and ever eat and be merry. Come with me Christmas. Let's join together. May you want a song forever and ever. When you're being married, go along with me. The emission free. Oh. Oh. Ladies and gentlemen, the high school rock band. Great job, kids. Great job. Now, we got set up for the Ever High School Jazz Band. Right now, we got the setup crew to set up for the jazz band. All right, I think we're ready to go. Mr.

005Beasley, we're all set to go. Ladies and gentlemen, are we ready to go over here? >> Without further ado, please welcome the Ev High Jazz and Junior Jazz Ensemble Combined Jazz Band. Here we go. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Let the hell out. Let the Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Ladies and gentlemen, the high school engineered jazz ensemble under the director of Mr. Chris Weasley. We now like to welcome to the stage high school flute chamber choir. We like to welcome our state senator, Senator Sal Dean America right over here. All the support he gives us. Thank you so much, sir. and all our wonderful donors that sponsor so many scholarships for our programs. Let's hear for our donors for our scholarship program. Thank you so much.

006And also our superintendent schools, Mr. Bill Hart. Thank you so much. And all his leadership staff, we really appreciate it. This ensemble here is made up of all flutes and a piccolo. And we welcome the Ever High School flute ensemble. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Ladies and gentlemen, the flute ensemble. Right now, I'd like to welcome to the stage ever high school choir under direction of Mr. Crawford. I was a little understaffed. And the songs of sore figures dancing gracefully across my me. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. My heart is restless gracefully across my memory. Far away, long ago, glowing till my heart used to know they Remember the song of any s Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul with God by no me they say he was so angry. Hey, why

007There must have been some magic in that old town. He began to dance around the sun wasn't hot that day. So he said, "Let's run before the snowman." He wave goodby. Ladies and gentlemen, the high school choir and direction. Tonight we were supposed to have a special guest to uh sing Oh All Holy Night. Uh Mrs. Crawford, but Mr. Crawford is home ill. And Mr. Crawford's hanging in here too because he's a little ill, too. So, let's get a round of applause for Mr. Crawford. But we do have a special guest. Trina Lee's going to play a performance on the piano. Trina Lee, come on up. Heat. Heat. Hello. Let's start. That's what two. All right, we're ready to start up our second half of today's concert. Uh, a little story here. Uh, this year,

008Mr. Cash Merrick. Uh, Miss Pa, Miss Develin, Mrs. Cash hit a new mark of the number of string players in our district. I believe it's over 500 students take strings in the public schools. And for 30 plus years, they've been doing it the right way. So without further ado, I'd like to welcome to the stage under director of Mr. Catch Merrick and Miss Stein, the Ever High School orchestra and junior strings. I would like to acknowledge a few people before then we'll play straight through. Okay. Um, first of all, we would like people to come and play along with us. >> Thank you, Mr. Brian. >> So, I would like to thank uh Mrs. Miko for coming. Thank you so much. Miko is at the English. Uh, Mrs. Boska, of course, while she is teaching

009at the Laet School, all strings. So all the middle school students who are there who are here almost all of them uh are taught by Mrs. Bosska and she taught them this music. So thank you very much Mrs. Bosska. I would like to thank Mrs. uh Miss Shrader. Uh thank you so much for coming. Miss Strader is at the Woodier School and she also plays violin which is awesome. Um we I saw Miss Whipcom too but I don't see her now. Yes. So thank you Miss Whipcom as well. And thank you Mrs. Kajmar for coming. Mrs. Kashmar is uh has been at the Lafayette for 32 years and I joined we started the string program together and that was fun and now we have all this. Um, I would like to also acknowledge if you

010could all the middle school students, could you please stand up? You practiced so much and you are here playing along with the high school orchestra. Good for you. We're very proud of you. Very proud of you. Thank you very much. I would like uh the um high school orchestra to stand up, please. And I would like now to everybody sit down except for the seniors. Except for the seniors. So these are our seniors and thank you very much. We'll miss you very much next year, but we still have string night. So that's awesome. Okay, you can sit down. Thank you. Oh, sorry. Miss Develin, Miss Develin, teaches along beside me. And thank you very much, Miss Develin, for all you do. We >> And we have one alumna here in the orchestra. Well, two because

011Miss Amigo is here. And Key. Uh, thank you, Key, for coming. And that's it. I'm not talking anymore. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. One, two, three, four. Heat. Heat. Heat. I promise. Well, my son Rowan, who always plays with us, he's also a senior. So, >> right here, guys. Ready? 1 2 3. Thank you. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, the high school orchestra under the direction of the catch matter. Okay, as we're setting up, it's uh logistical. We have over 150 people on the stage tonight, so we're trying to make this all work. So, let's hear for everybody behind the scenes making this all work. I'd like to point a shout out to Mr. Matt Lelaw

012and Evan Demazo. our entire TV crew under direction of Josh Delgazo, Joe Kimley up there, Justin Han, the recording history. Thank you so much, guys. We appreciate it. As we're getting ready, we want to put the lights all the way up right now because we're going to recognize our alumni that came back tonight. We'll start from the class of 1982, Lisa Martin. from the class of 1997. Ron Ramso from the class of 2002. Trumpet player and video team member. Joe Camley from the class of 2002. Danny Murphy from the class of 2003. Sun Chang, our conductor tonight. From the class of 2004, Maxa from the class of 2004, Rob Murray from the class of 2000. He does that every year. Thank you, Rob. From the class, now I got all rousled. All right. From the

013class of 2005, Eder Bastos. from the class of 2005, Danny Maltes. From the class of 2010, Michael Sandival from the class of 2010, Natasha Berg from the class of 2011, Michael Kenyon from the class of 2014. Jared Logan, he's also the band director up in LOL. So, let's hear for Jared again. from the class of 2015. Amaka Tahada from the class of 2020. Commen Fzone from the class of 2020. Robbie D. Roa from the class of 2023. Kim Herrera from the class of 2024. Nick Bellton from the class of 2024. Justin Dub for the class of 2024. Enrico Vega from the class of 2024. Saline Dominico Jr. from the class of 2025. Sydney Valentin. We forgot somebody. Oh, let's hear for Adon over here. Adan a trumpet. Sorry about that. Class of 24. I got

014that right. Anyway, all right. Thank you, Adana. Costa. We also have C on French Horn, KT Katherine Taylor, one of our staff. French horn. And from the United States Marine Drum and BU Corp and the United States Army National Guard on trumpet, Bob Bean. and also on staff Rose Wickham on clarinet. So without further ado, welcome home to all the alumni. Welcome home. Without further ado, under direction of assist. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Ha! Ha! Wow! Heat. Heat. Heat. One, two, three. Heat. Heat. Heat. One, two, one, two. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear for the Ever High School band with alumni and French under directions

015of Mark Sachenna. I would like to bring back right now all the orchestra members. Oh, there's a problem. Hold on. Hold on. Santa was in the men's room. So, can we play that one more time? Because Mr. K just brought it to my attention and we don't want to have Santa Claus coming without Santa. You want Santa? You want Santa? There we go. One more time, baby. Let's get this going. Santa Claus. Come on, let's open. I'll tell you why. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Oh, there you go. We like to thank Santa coming all the way from the North Pole. You have you been up, good boy. Ho ho ho. Let's hear for Santa Claus. We like to bring back to the stage the Ever High School orchestra and junior strings. Come on back to the

016stage. We're going to wrap up with the finale and we're going to do the raffles right now. So get your raffles out and we like to thank a person that really did behind the scenes stuff today. Rosemary Hughes right over here. Let's hear for Rosemary. And the person does all the public relations for the public schools right here. Dave O' Conor right here. Thank you Dave. Okay, we need some help with the raffles. So you guys want to help me out? >> All right. >> Are we ready? >> Let's hear these great. One, two, three, and Okay. One, two, three. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat up here. Heat up here. Thank you so much.

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