WHEELING — Wheeling Park High School’s music department will present its 30th annual “Festival of Sound” next week, and the show will highlight the “past, present and future” of WPHS music scholars.

Performances are set for 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec.12 and Saturday, Dec. 13, and for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14.

Tickets cost $18 for adults, and $8 for children. Ohio County Schools students with identification may attend for free.

Tickets can be ordered prior to the shows at https://gofan.co/app/school/WV2642_2.

Thirty years ago in 1995, music department instructors Pat and Leslie Garrett, Ben Podolski, and Kathy Aspenwall arranged for a combined concert featuring band, strings and chorus students. This took place in the WPHS gymnasium.

The steel drum band, jazz band, hand bell choir and perc

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