Smith-Cotton High School band students refuse to let their compatriots in Joplin go solo in efforts to rebuild the tornado-ravaged community’s music program.
Spurred by junior Caroline Decker, the band will host a carnival fundraiser Saturday, with proceeds being donated to the Joplin High School music program, which lost scores of instruments and between $800,000 and $1 million worth of sheet music in the May 22 tornado. Decker said a family friend had spoken with Joplin band director Rick Castor.
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