Best of the West Music Festival

High school and college students will join for a public concert as part of the Best of the West Music Festival at North Platte Community College.  

The performance will take place at 6 p.m. Monday, October 28 at the McDonald-Belton Theater on the North Platte Community College South Campus, 601 W State Farm Rd. Admission is free.

Area high school students auditioned for the opportunity to participate. This year, the following 28 musicians from five schools were selected:

Dundy County Stratton - Leslie Gomez, Alyssa Stamm

Gothenburg - Kathryn Bartruff, Lathan Buesing, Marvirx Butterfield, Sean Magana, Brant Miller, Claire Vincent, Ebeanna Westbrook, Alec Winney              

Hershey - Katie Abbott, Lindsay Blomstedt, Ella Duckworth, Jessica Edmonds, Nolan Eustice, Maddie Haddow, Rachel Haines, Abby Hiatt, Livia Jones, Amelia Lake, Alexis Read, Rachel Simonson

North Platte St. Patrick’s - Kason Baker, Kallen Brown, Aashi Naidoo, Dimitri Pettit   

Perkins County - Aragorn Green, Miles Knapp