Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘music’ Category

Wolf cheerleader hits high note

Posted in Cheer, music, tagged , , , , on August 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Cora Fix sings the national anthem. (Photos property Everett AquaSox/Evan Morud/Lindsey McClellan)

Cora Fix brought down the house.

The Coupeville High School cheerleader, who will be a sophomore when school starts in September, performed the national anthem before Wednesday’s Everett AquaSox baseball game, and nailed it.

The High-A affiliate of the Seattle Mariners followed up Fix’s stellar vocal work with one of their best performances of the season, ripping 14 hits in an 11-6 win over the Eugene Emeralds.

The daughter of CHS Fiscal Secretary Rosalie Fix has been raking in honors of late, having also earned All-American status as a cheerleader during Coupeville’s recent summer camp.

AquaSox players and young softball champs join the festivities.

Hittin’ the high notes.

Read Full Post »

Wolf singers soar with spring performance

Posted in music, tagged , , , , , , 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.

Read Full Post »

Bow Down to the … beat

Posted in music, tagged , , , 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:

Read Full Post »

Kwamane Bowens killin’ the game

Posted in Football, music, tagged , , , , 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:

 

Read Full Post »

Wolf grad plays masterful tune

Posted in music, tagged , , , , 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’!

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »