Pictured here in 2009 with fellow Rio Americano High School band members, Nathan Swedlow, second from left, Zachary Darf, center, and Zach Giberson, far right, were among the students in the band program chosen to participate in the Charles Mingus High School Competition and weekend festival at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City February 12 – 15, 2010. (File photo courtesy Leslie Barger)
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