Welcome!

Welcome to Porchella 2024! We are so happy to have you with us as our students take you on a musical journey through different eras and styles and showcase the skills they have been working on throughout the year. It has been an amazing year and we are very much looking forward to one more great night of music before we head off into summer!

We have a variety of food options for you and hope you enjoy the selection. A portion of the proceeds will go towards supporting our amazing students and program.

Throughout the past few years we have enjoyed seeing our community grow at these concerts! We hope that you get to meet some of the other concert goers we have with us here tonight!

To sum it up - THANK YOU! Thank you for the support throughout the year, thank you for spending your time with us tonight, and thank you for allowing us another opportunity to share the passion of the students with you!

Thursday Night

Bag's Groove

Flashlight

Chameleon

Guitar 1 - Blues

The students in this ensemble opted to perform a set focused around blues and funk for Porchella. Their set contains a wide range of styles and is heavily rooted around improvisation and melodic lead guitar playing. This group has worked hard this semester to add their own flair to these songs and put on a great show for this year's festival!

Soloists (in order):
- Sam Seyedzadeh
- Aditya Baniwal
- Sammy Marcus
- Joe Wainwright
Bass:
- Jimmy Dai
- Juno Hwang
- Mack Hattar
- Aaliyah Chowdhury
Drums:
- Joey Valenton
Keyboard:
- Nathan Samson

Enjoying the art?

We would like to thank Sofia Szczedrin, a Portola Senior, for her assistance in creating the artwork for this year's concert. Posters and T-Shirts are available for purchase and are a great way to remember this magical night for you and your student. They can be purchased at the ticket table near the music rooms. All proceeds will go towards supporting our thriving arts programs at PHS!

Guitar 2

The students in our Guitar 2 course this year hit the ground running through collaboration, composition, rehearsal, and performance. They took the skills they learned in other courses and melded them together to take the projects for the course to the next level and create amazing art through their hard work. They have been performing since December and have grown as individuals and as band-mates. They have taken creative chances by trying different instruments and styles and have become fantastic performers.

We hope you enjoy the sounds of our Guitar 2 bands!

Lifornica

Yeeun Ryu - Singer, Eddie Chen - Lead Guitar, Ethan Kim - Rhythm Guitar, Yanyu Shi - Bass, Myreen Hawlader - Drums

In Bloom - Nirvana, Sk8r Boi - Avril Lavigne, Back to Me - The Rose

We're Lifornica and we'll knock your socks off with our performances of "In Bloom" by Nirvana, "Sk8r Boi" by Avril Lavigne, and lastly we'll end with "Back to Me" by the Rose. I hope you guys enjoy listening as much as we do performing.

Double Pump

Jango Marshal, Sawyer Hamkins, Terry Zhang, Lisa Zhu, and Shravan Suresh

Growing The old is Getting Old - Silversun Pickups, Fire in the Sky - Palace,

Double Pump is an alternative rock band based in Irvine California. The band had its uprising in early 2024, inspired by the alternative scene of the early 2000s. Throughout their existence, Double Pump has worked tirelessly to perfect their sound, and bring it to the people of Portola High School. The members of the band are most well known for the their appearance in Portola’s hit musical festival, Battle of the Bands. Since then, Double Pump has maintained a prominent name today’s music scene.

Ghidorah

Dylan Hong, Ethan Nguyen, Kenji Fukuda, Joshua Sherman, Renee Liu

Some - Steve Lacy, Freaking Out the Neighborhood - Mac DeMarco

Our group is kind of like a mix of rock and something else. We are here to have fun and do our best. Everyone has been working very hard on the charts and the rehearsal. We have one drummer, 3 guitars and one bass. We are enthusiastic about the performance.

Set In Stone

Ayushi Bhattacharjee, Isaac Kim, Juno Heneks, Enzo Fukushima, Ethan Martin

Come a Little Closer - Cage the Elephant, Just Like Heaven - The Cure, Fly Me To the Moon - Frank Sinatra

Set in Stone is an awesome band featuring talented musicians from Guitar 2 Period 3. Lead vocalist Ayushi Bhattacharjee and lead guitarist Enzo Fukushima know how to take up the stage. With infectious enthusiasm and energy, there is never a dull moment with drummer Isaac Kim. Talented bassist Juno Heneks is always there to uplift the good vibes with her slick, funky basslines… And last but not least, rhythm guitarist Ethan Martin! A key element to Set in Stone and with amazing technique, Ethan never disappoints. Set in Stone is super excited to perform at Porchella 2024! Rock” on!

Swords & Tulips

Aayan, Kang, Elliot, Hea, and Shayleb

Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra , Where Is My Mind - Pixies , Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

Hello! We are Swords and Tulips! The band is made up of Elliot as Lead Guitarist, Kang as Drummer, Shayleb as Bass, Hea as Vocalist, and Aayan as Rhythm Guitarist. Elliot landed from the far-off planet of Zeppelina, Kang brushed up his drumming skills after finding an ancient drumstick made of a one-of-a-kind exotic tree bark, Shayleb got materialized inside of the churning hot gases of a star, Hea found her inner passionate energy after boldly facing a three-headed tyrant of the planet Cyzon, and Aayan was disbanded from members of his own fellow species, the Ai-Yons, after getting into a fatal spaceship accident and going on a crash course for Earth. Our arch rival is Double Pump!

Etiquette

Kevin Huang, Sebastian Uyeke, Yash Awate, Siri Kolanupaka, Sophia Zhao

Still Into You - Paramore, Too Close - Sir Chloe, Feeling Good - Muse

Hey! We're Etiquette, and we love putting a spin on classics as well as experimenting with new songs to make our crowd get HYPED! We have Kevin on lead guitar, Sophia on rhythm guitar, Yash on drums, Sebastian on bass, and Siri on vocals. When we're not making music, we like to make jokes and goof off together. Our set list includes the songs Feeling Good by Muse, Too Close by Sir Chloe, and Into You by Paramore. Rock on and we hope to see you at Porchella!

Remember Tomorrow

Luke Passey, Jonathan Su, Apollo Jaan, Ofelia Ning, MatthewGuerrero

Mr. Brightside - The Killers, Last Caress- The Misfits, Shut Up and Dance - WALK THE MOON

We come from simple beginnings. A ragtag group of kids from Irvine. Today we will rock at Porchella. One of the largest music concerts in the Tri-State Area. But we will always remember our simple beginnings. We will always Remember Tomorrow.

Events like tonight would not be possible without the support and assistance of our parents and families. We would like to thank Lee Chhen Stewart, Raina Song, Melody Andico, Erica Borquez, JP Sharp, Vinna Funng, and Lourdes Atienza for all they have done for our program throughout the year! If you are interested in joining our community and continuing to build our events ask one of the directors about how you can get involved! Meetings happen once a month in person or on Zoom and we have positions of all levels.

Want to help keep us moving forward?

The materials we have to support our students come in no small part from our families generosity. Every cable, amp, stage piece, speaker, and instrument the students have access to is thanks to your support. In order to keep our program reaching out to more students and to keep providing our students with the best possible music making experience we have an Amazon Wish List that we would gladly accept gifts from. The list can be found HERE.

Pop Performance Ensembles

Strikethrough

Abella Paniagua, Ken Yasuda, Dora Ung, Yalie Amram, Yunseo Choi, and Luke Atienza

Skate with Strikethrough at Porchella! With members who have worked their way up through the program over the years, we've come to form the ultimate pop band with finesse and style. Strikethrough has performed at several school sponsored events and in public domains throughout the 23-24 year including Portola High School pep rallies, Brü Grill & Market, the Disability Awareness Festival at Woodbridge High School, and much more. Tonight at Porchella, we plan to make your evening unforgettable. So fellas, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Seance

Dana (rhythm guitar, keyboard), Inika (bass, vocals), Sharim (lead guitar), Bryan (drums), Natalie (vocals)

Come With Me - Surfaces, salem ilese; Bloodlust - Séance; After The Storm - Kali Uchis, Tyler, The Creator, Bootsy Collins

We’re Séance, one of the pop performance bands here at Portola. We’ve been playing together since the beginning of the school year and can’t wait to put on one last show for you all. You can catch us at both nights of Porchella, with a different set each night. We will be performing many different genres, including pop, rock, funk, and more. There will be a lot of surprises throughout the night, so make sure to be there, and we hope you’ll enjoy!

THANK YOU!

Music is alive and well in Irvine, and that is in no small part thanks to patrons like YOU! Without an audience our music wouldn't have the same meaning and our program would not be as healthy and vibrant as it is. We truly enjoy seeing such a variety of students and musicians in our program and are grateful for the opportunity to provide them a space to share their art and passion with the public. Thank you for coming!

We would also like to thank Mr. John Pehrson, Jen Ochsner, Amy Paulsen, and James Coney for their support throughout the year, Mr. Leo Diego and the facilities staff for keeping our spaces clean and facilitating the evening, Ms. Samantha Sanford and the tech students for their work and facility usage, Mr. Adrian Rangel-Sanchez for the undying support, Mr. Kearci Moir and Summer Hsieh for assisting in the art for tonight, Jonathan Zuniga for his assistance in making the sound magical, Jonathan Zuniga, Luke Thomas, and David Sauer for their expertise and ensemble coaching, and the PE Department for the usage of their excellently crafted games for tonight.

For more information about our upcoming events make sure to follow us on Instagram at @phs_instrumental_music and check back at our website, www.phsmusic.org to save the dates!

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