Joey Pero and the Batavia Concert Band performed “Ever Blue and White” for the first time in public at Centennial Park in Batavia on Wednesday evening. Pero created the song, melding together two Batavia High School alma mater songs Ever Batavia and The Blue and White. Pero has gifted the …
Pictured-left to right- Batavia Concert Band members, Josh Pacino/Librarian/Historian, Jason Smith/General Manager, Joey Pero/1997-99, and John Bailey/Conductor at Tuesday evening’s creation session at GCC. When Batavia Concert Band Manager Jason Smith approached Batavia native Joey Pero about playing with the band for their Centennial Celebration, Pero wanted to come up …
(Debbie Packard, pictured with her son Geoff Packard from Brockport on the left and Joey Pero from Batavia on the right) Debbie Packard is well known in the Genesee County area. She taught Kindergarten at Jackson Elementary in Batavia for a long time and has touched so many. This past …