Congratulations to the WHEELS 8th graders moving up to high school and the WHEELS high school seniors moving on to college! Band students helped everyone celebrate with their final two performances of the school year.

So proud of the WHEELS students that performed today at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem as part of the Jazz Power Initiative! They sang and danced original jazz music and standards with an all-star professional band! They have another performance on Tuesday evening at the United Palace.

Thank you to Inwood Art Works Culture Hub for including WHEELS students alongside professional musicians in the Inwood Music Festival!

Thank you to Luke Folger (a.k.a. Unigen) for visiting WHEELS last week and working with 3rd and 7th grade music students! He showed us how he composes and improvises using loops. He even recorded the 3rd graders playing various instruments, and then improvised using samples from those recordings.

Congratulations to all of our Pre-K through 12th grade music, dance and visual art students who performed in our first annual Spring Arts Showcase!

On Monday our 7th grade music students had the opportunity to learn from violist Nardo Poy, a member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Thank you to Access Orpheus for making this possible! Also, Mr. Johnson and a 7th grade student had the pleasure of speaking about their experiences with Access Orpheus at Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's annual gala earlier this month.

Congratulations to our student that had his final performance with the Salute to Music Manhattan Band last weekend! WHEELS is proud to have students playing great music in several all-city bands.