From Saturday Sept. 20 to Sunday Sept. 21, the annual Lafayette Arts and Wine Festival celebrated with colorful and interactive booths, merchandise, and exhibits of different products. The festival offered famous beer and wine with festival branding located in five ticket booths. Many from the Campolindo community participated, including the girl and boys water polo team volunteers, Jazz Orchestra performances and English teacher Tom Duffy’s band.
Campo was delighted to be invited again to the Arts and Wine Festival this year and participated in a variety of ways. Boys and girls water polo volunteered on trash duty at the festival, and their parents of girls and boys water polo teams selling alcohol tickets. Some of the profit earned from the tickets will go to the water polo teams.
There was also all-day live music from three stages with performances from Jazz Orchestra and Duffy’s band. Jazz Orchestra performed a couple of their songs on Sunday afternoon at the community stage at the intersection of Mt. Diablo Boulevard and Moraga Road.
Campo Jazz Band was happy they had an opportunity to perform on a bigger stage with a public audience compared to playing in the classroom or in the Performance Arts Center. Junior Arnav Shinde said, “Yeah, I think that it was a good opportunity to learn how to perform in a public setting rather than at Campo or our room. It gave us an opportunity [to experience] how it [performing] would be in the future.” The purpose of the Jazz Performance was to show the community that Campo was there to play some music and to advertise their upcoming concerts.
The cheer team performed outside of their booth next to Tutu’s. Their booth had cheer merch including bows and pom poms. The cheer stand had an outstanding performance by stunt that many kids and parents enjoyed.
Beginning in 2023 Sara Regan, the festival organizer, was willing to invite the cheer team to the festival to show the spirit of Campo in Lafayette. Sophomore Claire Ottinger, who performed in Saturday’s performance, said, “I have to say it brings school spirit, shows what we are capable of as a school, and brings art and dance.” The goal for the cheer team in the festival is to show cougar spirit and to perform. They brought awareness to the cheer team by volunteering and fundraising for their programs.
Overall, a lot of people enjoyed the performances done by Campo. Freshman Madeline Harvey, who participated in the festival, felt good that our school was represented in a variety of ways. She liked seeing stands that showed Campo involvement, specifically Cheer and the water polo girls and boys banner up at the ticket stands.
Students who participated in the Campo-related booths enjoyed spreading the spirit, awareness, and culture of the school into the festival.
