Vocalist Caitlin Gillam (pictured), accompanied by pianist Henry Lewers, performed to a full house in a free concert 7 p.m. Friday, May 16, in the Pine Hill Waldorf School Auditorium. The program covered a range of songs of different styles and genres, from Smokey Robinson’s “My Guy” to Henry Purcell’s “Dido’s Lament.”

Caitlin is an eighth grader at Pine Hill who won first place in the Monadnock Idol competition’s audience poll of 2006, and with her brother, Jeremy, won first place in the 2007 Monadnock Idol audience poll and the Milford Great Pumpkin Festival talent show of 2007. Caitlin was also in the cast of For Good ~ A Contemporary Broadway Musical Revue. She sang Christmas Lullaby from Songs for A New World by Jason Robert Brown, and Good-Bye Until Tomorrow from The Last Five Years, also by Jason Robert Brown.

Henry Lewers is a senior at High Mowing School whose many accomplishments include the music direction of his Broadway musical revue, For Good ~ A Contemporary Broadway Musical Revue, and the HMS all-school play, Bye Bye Birdie, as well as selection for the New Hampshire All-State Honors Jazz Band and All-State Honors Jazz Combo.

Caitlin and Henry were joined by vocalists Amiana Banks, Ellie Davis, Rosamund Hawkins for Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and My Guy and her brother Jeremy Gillam for One Hand, One Heart from West Side Story and The Prayer.

Below is a video of Imagine from the concert.

The concert benefitted the David Anderson Music Fund at High Mowing School and was the final installment of the Fund's new Fall Music Series.