The melodic beat of drumming filled the music room on the bottom floor of Cecil Intermediate School on Tuesday. Nearly two dozen drums – djembes and colorful tubanos – were set up in a large circle, as a group of fifth-graders beat their drums in unison, wide smiles breaking out across ...

A teacher in the Canon-McMillan School District will be honored at the CMA Foundation’s Music Teachers of Excellence Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Deanna Grandstaff, a band teacher at Cecil Intermediate School, is among 30 music educators from across the country who will be honored for their ...