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Winner of the Yamaha Clavinova CLP311 awarded at Jensen’s Music Store’s Clavinova Festival was Kristin McCart (right) pictured with her teacher April Brown.

Music teacher Carla Allenstein stands with her students, the proud winners of the CLP311, at the Jenkins Music Clavinova Festival.

Doug Lauts congratulates Robert Adams
on winning the drawing for the CLP311.

Keyboard students throughout the area sign-up for a series of workshops and competitive "concerts." Foster’s most recent Festival had 250 participants in the competition and finalists performed at the Festival Finale which was held in the Convention Center at the Holiday Inn-Moline. A CLP311 was raffled off and won by ten-year-old Seth Vincent.

Hal Cowan of Jenkins Music
presides as Master of
Ceremonies during Jenkins’
recent Clavinova Festival.

Jim attributes the success of the Clavinova Festivals to the enthusiasm to share the music. "Everyone who is in the Festival wants to be in it again," he added.

Lauts’ Family Music Centers began preparing for their Festival by loaning Clavinova’s to area piano teachers who had more than ten students enrolled in the Festival. The fourth annual event culminated in a triumphant recital at Merritt Island High School’s auditorium. Robert Adams, age ten, was the happy winner of the drawing for a Clavinova CLP311. Robert has participated in the Festival for the past four years, and has been a winner each time. "The first few times he won trophies that were bigger than he was, and this year he won the Clavinova. He was so happy!" exclaimed Barbara Lauts.