Posted in music, tagged Avery Parker, Casie Greve, choir, CHS Wolves, CMS Wolves, singers, spring performance on March 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Avery Parker waits for the downbeat to hit. (Jackie Saia photos)
Let the musical notes hit the ceiling!
Coupeville High School and Middle School students presented the spring choir performance, under the leadership of Casie Grevè, with the singers knocking it out of the park.
The pics seen above and below come to us courtesy Jackie Saia.
Posted in music, tagged Bow down to Cow Town, CHS Wolves, rap music, SoundCloud on September 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »
“Dance to the music, my minions!” (Larry Grella cartoon)
The internet is a weird place.
Randomly type in something like, “Bow Down to Cow Town,” and you may find out Coupeville isn’t the only place to embrace said concept.
Oh, it’s true.
Sitting there on SoundCloud, with 160 views, is a rap song with just that name, uploaded two years ago, credited to JMB, featuring JSN.
The main rapper, who hasn’t uploaded anything new in a year, is apparently one Matt Baltazar, and appears to be a teenager or young adult.
It might be my imagination, but he sort of looks like a cross between Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite and former Coupeville hoops star Risen Johnson.
Other than that, there’s not much info out on there on the internet about our music man.
And his song?
It veers a little away from Coupeville, with him rapping in support of an athletic team wearing blue and gold, instead of red and black.
But it does have plenty of rhymes about “suckers and haters” needing to “Bow Down to Cow Town,” so about 95% of its two-minute-plus running time could be lifted and used in support of the Wolves.
On the slim (shady) chance the mysterious JMB stumbles across this story while doing his own internet time-wasting, he should think about a road trip to perform live on Whidbey Island.
Until then, it’s another internet quirk, something you probably didn’t need to be told about, but hey … content.
If nothing else, in the words of our maestro, “If you didn’t know, you do now.”
The song:
Posted in Football, music, tagged Anacortes, CHS Wolves, football, Kwamane Bowens, rap music on September 20, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Kwamane Bowens snags a photo with Coupeville grad turned U-Dub football star Sean Toomey-Stout, who he coached in high school. (Photo courtesy Bowens)
Life is good.
Kwamane Bowens, who was a Coupeville student as a young man, then came back around to help coach Wolf football players, is a multi-threat.
The former NCAA D-I scholarship athlete is currently on the gridiron coaching staff at Anacortes High School, where the Seahawks are a flawless 3-0 after smacking formerly-big-and-bad Archbishop Thomas Murphy last Friday.
Bowens also continues to pursue his musical career as Groovie Mane, having dropped his debut album, Key to Me.
To listen to his music, pop over to https://music.apple.com/us/album/key-to-me/1603659980.
And take a gander at the video for his song Can’t Change (which does have some explicit lyrics) below:
Posted in music, tagged Allison Wenzel, Central Washington University, CHS Wolves, music teacher, Ocosta School District on May 9, 2022| 1 Comment »
Rachel (left) and Allison Wenzel, supremely talented sisters. (Photo courtesy Susan Wenzel)
The toast of Coupeville is on her way to wow Ocosta.
Allison Wenzel, a three-sport athlete and musical wunderkind in her days as a Wolf, will follow up graduation from Central Washington University by being hired as a K-12 music teacher in Grays Harbor County.
Her job, which kicks in with the 2022-2023 school year, was approved by the Ocosta School Board at its April 26 meeting.
Wenzel graduates from CWU June 11.
The lil’ sis of highly talented Rachel, and daughter of Tim and Susan, Allison was a quintuple threat in high school.
She played four seasons each of volleyball, basketball, and track and field for CHS, advancing to the state championships in all three sports.
Wenzel, who graduated from Coupeville in 2018, was the first Wolf athlete in a decade-plus to go to the big dance in three sports.
When she wasn’t busy with sports, music ruled her world.
A master of multiple instruments, Wenzel also went to state as a musician, qualifying both as a solo artist (interpreting Mozart) and as part of a duo with Jakobi Baumann.
Add that time when she was inducted into the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame — https://coupevillesports.com/2019/08/14/talent-so-much-freakin-talent/ — and she’s kind of a big deal.
Ocosta School District officials? You understood the assignment.
UPDATE:
After writing this story, I found out Tim Wenzel (and his siblings) are Ocosta grads, meaning Allison is going to work at her dad’s alma mater.
Her aunt (also named Rachel) previously taught for the school district, and Allison’s grandparents live in town.
Which means we should be getting a first day of school photo when she starts her new job.
Just sayin’!
Posted in music, tagged All-State, boys soccer, CHS Wolves, Eddy Perera, trombone on November 13, 2021| Leave a Comment »
When he’s not on the soccer pitch, Eddy Perera plays a mean trombone. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Soccer ball on the foot, or trombone on the lips, he’s a rising star.
Coupeville High School freshman Eddy Perera, coming off of a season on the pitch, has been selected for the All-State Honor Band program.
Run by the Washington Music Educators Association, the event is scheduled to take place during President’s Day weekend in February, 2022.
Of course, the actual performance hinges on where the ongoing pandemic, and all of the restrictions it imposes, is three months from now.
For the moment, though, Perera can bask in the satisfaction of having aced his audition.
Music instructor Sean Brown, who has taught the Wolf frosh the past four years, speaks highly of his student.
Writing on his personal blog, Brown said:
He’s been sort of a stand-out in a small band program, showing a lot of technical ability.
We have been working a lot to improve his sound, which is a long journey we are still on, but he’s another player that has grown a lot and has been thrown in a lot of challenging situations.
When he wasn’t practicing the trombone, Perera played midfielder for the CHS soccer team this fall, one of six 9th graders on the Wolf squad.
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