Please drop off your Ballard Market receipts at Curbside Pickup on December 10th in the North Ballard High School parking lot off 67th. For every receipt submitted to BPAP, Ballard Market will give a portion to support our students.

Caffe Appassionato Sales are going to be online. You can order your favorite coffee and still support a BPA student. Links will be provided to share with friends and family to directly help support BPA students by specifying the student's name on the order. Coffee can make a great holiday gift and each sale can help cover a student’s class fees. Orders will be picked up during curbside pickup at the school on a date to be determined in December. Contact Lori Day with any questions.

Did you know that the school district only funds teacher salaries for the performing arts programs? Things critical to the success of our performing arts programs aren’t provided by the district; like music, scripts, coaches and other instructional assistance, scholarships, and instruments. Those things seem like they should be included in district funds, but they aren’t. That’s where the Ballard Performing Arts Boosters come in.

You might wonder: We don’t have uniforms to repair and clean, or trips to take. So what do we need the money for? The biggest expenses this year are:

Fiddlers’ Coach

In his first year as the coach for Ballard Performing Arts renowned Fiddlers Group, Matt Hopper is an upright and electric bassist, composer, and arranger from Indiana. He studied bass in Northern California at Humboldt State University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in double bass performance. He was the principal bassist for the Humboldt State Symphony, the San Juan Symphony, and the Four Corners Chamber Orchestra in Southwest Colorado before moving to Seattle in 2003.

Matt joined the Seattle Rock Orchestra in 2009 and plays a wide range of styles including jazz, rock, blues, folk, bluegrass, Latin, and avant garde. He has also been a bass coach for the Seattle Youth Symphony since 2015. Matt has played and recorded with Wayne Horovitz, Something In The Trees, The Beautiful Confusion, Jean Mann, The Brown Brothers, PGM Trio, The Dave Card Trio, Motel 5, and New Architects, among many others, and has freelanced and run a private music studio for over 20 years.

Watch why the arts matters at Ballard High School from orchestra students:

Thank you for your consideration and supporting this amazing performing arts program.

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