Martin Bakari, accompanied by Jodi Goble on piano, performed at the Young Performing Artist Scholarship Benefi t Concert on Saturday. TRAVIS FISCHER PHOTOS

Ashley Sievers, accompanied by Jodi Goble on piano, performed at the Young Performing Artist Scholarship Benefi t Concert on Saturday.

Members of the Hampton-Dumont, CAL, and West Fork choir performed with professional vocalists Martin Bakari and Ashley Sievers on Saturday.

     Franklin County embraced the fine arts this weekend as the Franklin County Arts Council and the Simon Estes Foundation welcomed two professional vocalists to perform for the sixth annual Young Performing Artist Scholarship Benefit Concert.

     This year’s featured artists were Martin Bakari, a tenor from Ohio who will be performing this summer in Opera Saratoga, and Ashley Sievers, a mezzo-soprano native to Iowa who now performs with the Minnesota Opera Chorus.

     On Friday, March 4, Bakari and Sievers toured Franklin County, visiting students at Hampton-Dumont, West Fork and CAL to answer questions about the life of a professional vocalist.

     Read the full article in the March 10 edition of the papers.