Great kids, high expectations, world-class music
Hello Returning and New Rio Band Members and Families, Welcome to another year of “Great Kids, High Expectations and World-Class Music”! We’re off to a roaring start, and we’ll soon have the bands placed and chaired, so we can really get down to business. We have enthusiastic returning kids, joined by a new crop of … Read more
The new theater will provide a new face to the public for Rio, and we all hope it will be the first phase of a comprehensive re-imagining of the entire campus. As part of the new theater construction, an entirely new music complex will also be constructed, roughly on the site of the existing band room. … Read more
Our PM and FM Jazz Ensembles, as well as two combos performed at the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival last Saturday. PM and FM were both selected to perform at the command performanceon Saturday night. Judges and audience alike were impressed with all of the Rio kids. Solo awards were won by: Jackson Stafford, Neta Galili and … Read more
It is now official. Rio WILL be getting a new Theater! The SJUSD Board voted unanimously at last night’s meeting to fund construction of a theater at Rio. Planning is to begin immediately, with construction beginning in months, and completion some time next year. This has been a long process, originally begun over 15 years … Read more
Three Rio Bands – Jazz Workshop – Anything But That (Combo) & T.H.A.T. (Combo) participated in the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society’s- Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival at CSUS on Saturday. The kids represented us all very well. One of our groups- T.H.A.T. (ask them what it means) was selected as the top high school group … Read more