Pioneer High School will receive Grammy Signature School Award at a concert this weekend

The Grammy Foundation recently named Pioneer High School as a Grammy Signature School, one of 12 across the nation, for the sixth time. The award recognizes top U.S. public high schools that are making an outstanding commitment to music education during an academic year, and Pioneer earned both a place in the Foundation's Gold Status category and $5,000 to benefit the school's music program.

PHS's music department will receive the Grammy Signature School Gold Award at a concert on Sunday, May 16 at 4 p.m. — in Schreiber Auditorium at PHS, at 601 West Stadium Boulevard — featuring performances by the Pioneer Symphony Band and Orchestra, the jazz band, the A Cappella Choir, and Soulfege, a student-led a cappella choir. The Grammy will be presented at this concert by Grammy representative Howard Hertz, a Bloomfield Hills attorney who specializes in entertainment law and is a member of the Detroit Recording Academy.