Willowdale is hosting the Monterey Bay Academy Westwinds and the Oceanaires on May 3rd, who will hold a concert at 3:00 p.m. We sincerely hope you will attend and support this traveling orchestra as they bless Willowdale with their talents.
Monterey Bay Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist boarding high school on the central California coast. MBA is celebrating 75 years of educating students in a Christian atmosphere. There are currently about 160 students attending MBA. Most of the students are from California, but numerous states and more than 15 countries are represented in the student body.
The music department at Monterey Bay Academy has a long history of outreach through performance across California and beyond. The touring ensembles are the Westwinds and the Oceanaires. Westwinds is a wind ensemble that currently has 26 members. They perform a variety of styles of music, including hymnal arrangements and original sacred band literature, as well as traditional, contemporary, and popular concert music. Oceanaires is an auditioned mixed voice choir with 19 members. They perform various music, including sacred contemporary compositions and spirituals, as well as traditional concert choir and popular literature. The Westwinds and Oceanaires will travel to New York City later this spring.
