Sit back, watch and listen - from your living room
Get this!
You may watch this year’s Bluffton Music Boosters chicken barbecue concert from your living room on Saturday.
The annual performance by 13 Bluffton music groups from elementary through high school is pre-recorded.
Watch the school website for the link. Click here to go to Music Department page on school website, where you will find the performance link.
In the meantime, The Icon provides viewers with an 8-page concert program attached at the bottom of this story. The program lists members of each of the performing groups plus the musical numbers performed.
The performance schedule follow:
• Fourth-fifth grade orchestra
• Seventh grade choir
• Fifth grade band
• Sixth-seventh-eighth grade orchestra
• Eighth grade choir
• Sixth grade band
• Sixth grade choir
• Seventh and eighth grade band
• High school orchestra
• High school concert band
• High school choirs
• High school show choir
• High school jazz band
Bluffton music teachers are:
Alice Basinger, elementary
Rachael E. Lewis, orchestra
David B. Sycks, band
Kara Zink, choir
Noah Floyd, student teacher
About the Music Boosters
Bluffton Music Boosters exist to support the music programs in the Bluffton Schools. The following are some of the major items fundraisers like this purchase for the various music programs this year:
• Purchase new choir robes
• Purchase new band instruments
• Music awards
• Show choir choreographer
• Recorders for 4th graders
• Subsidize field commander camp
• Many other instrument repairs and supplies
Stories Posted This Week
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Friday, October 16, 2026
- Production offers a modern take on the story of St. Clare of Assisi
- Bluffton volleyball edged in 5 by Van Buren
- Pirate girls soccer tie O-G
- October 16 Bluffton Schools athletics lineup, streaming
- Bluffton Council recap: Officers honored for 25 years of service
- Bluffton Clean Up teams up with Troop 3256 Cub Scouts
- Ada FFA: Feeding the Farmers
- Nov. 7 Fall Community Day at Bluffton University
- Quarry Farm Nature Preserve news for Fall 2026
Thursday, October 15, 2026
- DeWine announces $200M Rural Health Transformation program award
- Herb program with Marge Lafollette, Oct. 15
- Prairie seeding activity at Bluffton University, October 24
- Food for thought: Choline for the brain
- Results for 5K on October 2, Bluffton University Homecoming event
- 15 minutes with Sherry Miller, senior center activities coordinator
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 14
- CANCELLED Main St. closure on October 15
- Frederick Clyde Warren founded True-2-Form Plastics
- Pirate boys soccer beats Wapak in regular season finale
- Pirate girls soccer defeats Liberty Center
- Mennonite pastor to explore ‘good news’ in creation
- Bluffton University earns recognition in U.S. News & World Report rankings
- Obituary for Deborah "Debbie" Welch, 74
- Spirits and exorcism presentation during University Spiritual Life Week Forum
- Dodging bullets: Bluffton oral history 90+ years after Dillinger robbery
- Nora Matthews named BHS Student of the Month for September 2026
- ICAPP analysis on charter status and local autonomy
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
- Ada Icon headlines, October 13
- Bluffton area Women in Business meeting October 15
- Leo club glasses collection
- Night at the (Swiss Historical) Museum, October 24
- Woodcarving ornament workshop at Swiss Heritage Center
- Barefoot nature walks at the Nature Preserve
- Pirate volleyball seeded 4th
- Beavers sports roundup, October 6-11
- Bluffton leaf pickup scheduled for last week of October
- Pirate boys soccer shuts out Bellefontaine
- Watch an after school movie at the Bluffton Public Library
- Dunlap awarded OSBA humanitarian award