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Kathryn Kennedy serves as the Band Director at Legend High School. Ms. Kennedy graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Music Education. While at CSU, she served as a drum major for the marching band for three years and completed an honors thesis on the history of the CSU Marching Band. She was awarded the "Outstanding Upper Division Music Education Student" in 2022. Ms. Kennedy is a staff member for the George N. Parks Drum Major Academy, where she works with other band directors from around the country to train high school drum majors.
Dr. McKenna Blenk is currently the percussion specialist for Legend High School and a percussion instructor with Denver Percussion. She holds a DMA in Percussion Performance and Pedagogy with a secondary emphasis in ethnomusicology from the University of Iowa, a Masters in Percussion Performance from Truman State, and a Bachelor of Music Education from Appalachian State. McKenna has performed extensively across the United States, Thailand, and Italy as a soloist, chamber, and ensemble musician and is an advocate for collaborations of new music with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. She is a Vic Firth and Zildjian Educational Artist and a member of the Network for Diversity in Concert Percussion. In her free time, you can find McKenna adventuring around with her 3-legged husky named Soca.
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