Central Methodist University will host its annual music festival on Friday. Local students from Glasgow, New Franklin, Salisbury, Boonville, and Slater will be among the approximately 1,000 middle and high school musicians from around the state who will perform before judges on the CMU campus.

Performances run from 8 a.m. until around 5 p.m. Buses will begin arriving around 7 a.m. and will load and unload along Church Street throughout the day. Those driving through the area are expected to exhibit extra caution.

Visiting schools that are led by alums of CMU will include Boonville (Alec Fields and Mike Watts), Brookfield (Connor Sanchegraw and Anna Geurkink), Bueker (Sara Summers), Elsberry (Rebecca Cooper), Glasgow (Ed Lammers and Natalie Moore), Hallsville (Nathaniel Lewis and Susan Lewis), John Warner (Joshua Myers), Mexico (Sarah Murdock), Moberly (Heather Armstrong), Monroe City (Madalyn Bartholomew), New Franklin (Anna Pendergrass), Norborne (Daniel Long), Oak Grove (Kay Neas), Salisbury (Micheal Williams), Scotland Co. (Benjamin Oliver), Slater (Stephen Meyer), Waynesville (Cydnee Gilmore – current MME student), and West Middle School (Kyle Donnelly).

Other schools in attendance include Bevier, Boonville, Bucklin, Capital City, Centralia, Christian Fellowship, Columbia Independent School, Eldon, Father Tolton Catholic, Fatima, Fulton, Hardin, Harrisonville, Helias, Jefferson, Kingsville, Lexington, Macon, Marceline, Oakland, Odessa, OLLIS, Paris, Santa Fe, South Callaway, South Shelby, Southern Boone, St. Joseph Catholic, Vienna, and Westran.