(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of New Brighton School District)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pocono Manor, PA) Katelyn Nicholson, a student from the New Brighton School District, performed this weekend at the PMEA Region 1 Band festival and successfully auditioned into the PMEA All-State Concert Band. She will play in a festival with students from all across the state from April 22nd-24th at the Kalahari Resort in Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania. Nicholson will also have the opportunity to audition for the All-Eastern festival, which will be held in Providence, Rhode Island in April of 2027.