Nick Boggio, David Tuller, Jason Howard and Will Emerson (left to right) perform at the HF-L High Unplugged concert last Friday night. Photo by Donna MacKenzie
When Honeoye Falls-Lima High School choral director Ken Goold put up a sign-up sheet for interest in performing at the HF-L High School Music Unplugged concert, it didn’t take long for it to fill up and he had to put up a second sheet.
The Unplugged concert on June 16 at the high school auditorium featured 34 songs and almost 40 different students. The concert is the work of the students with a student crew running lights, sound and video, acting as a stage crew and designing the program. It allows the students, many of them seniors, one more chance to perform on stage.
The first half of the program was MCed by seniors Noah Adams and Jason Howard with the second half hosted by Colin Fanning, another senior, and Zach Boehm.
Kate Gabrielsen, Taber Gloor and Maegan Frame began the program with Ketchum, ID. David Tuller performed Just Haven’t Met You Yet. Jenna Quinn sang Thank You For The Music. Nick Boggio performed Since I Saw Vienna. A group of students named the 5 Second Rule did a hilarious version of Dear Future Husband. Aubrey Bent sang Butterfly Fly Away. Kaylee Henshaw and Will Emerson did You Matter To Me as a duet. Sam Roth, Boggio and Noah Close collaborated on Molly’s Lips. Sophie Stanley sang Someone Like You. Owen Dack and Quinn performed All I Ask of You. Albert Zhang sang and played the piano on Jubilee Line. Ellen Burke, Madison Fleming and Amelia Somers sang Valarie.
Somers led off the next group of performers with a solo of She Used To Be Mine. Henshaw and Natalia Carlson performed Wondering. Madison Fleming did a rendition of California Dreamin. Emerson and Boggio teamed for a fun song $1,000,000. Tali Camobreco sang Rivers and Roads. Frame, Alana Khona and Gabrielsen collaborated on Make You Feel My Love. Gloor, Gabrielsen and Henshaw teamed up for the song Back to Black. Twin sisters Claire Connors and Maeve Connors performed Riptide. Boggio, Emerson, Tuller and Howard covered the Billy Joel song For The Longest Time. Roth and Tristen Vanderven collaborated on the song Big Iron. Claire Connors, Maeve Connors and Tuller performed Somewhere Over The Rainbow.
Dack and Fleming began the last part of the program with the song Can’t Help Falling in Love. Emerson and Gina Piccirilli teamed for In Case You Don’t Live Forever. Braeden Weaver, Matt Ross, Henry Burke, Aiden McLean, Edward Brown and Andrew Stansbury performed Walking Bass. Maggie Grann sang Still Hurting. Emerson soloed in the song Soon You’ll Get Better. Bri Bledsoe performed The Last of Us 2 Theme. Bledsoe, Boggio, Frame, Jubei Kettavong and Close collaborated for two songs, The Trooper and Everlong. Bailey Burdett, Close, Boggio, Robert Brown and Eli Webster performed Fool In The Rain. Tuller and Dack teamed for Agony. Boggio, Frame and Jackson Carmichiel closed the concert with the song As The World Caves In.
