Sitting down with members of the Grand Haven High School fine arts department

The drama department is taking the stage for their winter play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on Feb. 23 and 24. Bucs' Blade reporter Sophia Jaeger sat down with the director of theater to discuss what the play has in store. SJ: How is "A Midsummer Night's Dream" different from things you have done before? RM: Well it's Shakespeare and I have only directed one other Shakespeare play here at Gra...

Sophomore Samantha Korecki attended the MSVMA State Honors Choir performance with her peer George Fullerton. They both advanced from regionals to state and they just recently learned that they qualified for All-State, which is the highest level. Korecki sat down with reporter Morgan Womack to talk about her experience. MW: How did the event take place with all of the different choirs? SK: At reg...

Senior Dominique Christian discusses with reporter Sophia Jaeger what theatre means to her and what it's like from backstage. SJ: What does it mean to be a techie? DC: People don't really look at the aspect of the techie side they always see the actors but if you think about it without the techies they would just be people standing on stage in the dark. Because you have your light crew your s...

Pearl Slayton has a passion for visual arts. Her talents drew the attention of reporter Sophia Jaeger, who sat down with Slayton to talk about her art. SJ: What drew you to visual arts? PS: I can't really pinpoint why I am for visual arts, I used to hate it. My mom is an artist and a lot of other people in my family are artists so that was all I was really ever exposed to, so I ended up falling...

Senior Noah Merriman is a member of GOTAK, the fiddle club at the high school. He's getting ready for GOTAK's biggest gigs, Irish Fest, and talked with reporter Morgan Womack about his experiences. MW: What are you currently working on for Irish Fest? NM: So this set we have like 10 or 11 songs we’re doing so we’ve just been working on that in rehearsal, there are different some jigs, some p...