Vienna Jammers Transitioning to Nonprofit Status

Group that began out of Vienna Elementary hopes to expand, perform around the country.

The Vienna Jammers have spent the last few weeks making music using trashcans, PVC pipe, homemade marimbas and drum sets in a warehouse-like space at 316 Dominion Road. The group, which was previously a program at Vienna Elementary School, is in the process of going the nonprofit route and found its new home in a location previously used by Vienna’s The Soundry. With the changing status, and approaching its seventh year as a group, the Jammers hope to expand offerings and perform throughout the area, and even across the country. Director Dave Reynolds, a music instructor at Vienna Elementary, said the group grew to the point where it made sense to move it away from the school system, allowing it to be open to anyone in the area through an …

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