MHS hosts 450 schools at District Music Festival

Nearly 450 student musicians made their way to Malta two weekends ago to perform in the MHSA District Music Festival, one of 12 such festivals in the state each spring. The two-day festival in Malta hosted nine schools including Saco, Whitewater and Hinsdale.

Some of the students where competing at the final District Festival for the last time in their high school careers – like Lukas Johnson of Hinsdale – while others were getting their first taste of the event.

Johnson, a senior at Hinsdale High School, performed on his trumpet on Saturday morning and felt that things could have gone...