Weston Sanders is a junior at Princeton Senior High School in Princeton, WV. He serves as drum major and flute section leader. He has been a part of the WV Allstate Band for the past two years as both a member of the flute section and as the piccolo chair. He attended WV All State Solo and Ensemble his freshman year and attended WV Arts Alive Festival his sophomore year. Weston currently studies with Professor Elizabeth Lantz, Virginia Tech.
The International Festival of Flutes: People | Place | Culture, hosted by West Virginia University, takes place on lands that include the ancestral territories of the Shawnee, Lenape (Delaware), Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora), Cherokee, and many other Indigenous peoples.
We honor and recognize the Indigenous Nations and communities who have stewarded this region since time immemorial, and on whose ancestral lands we gather today to celebrate diverse musical traditions and cultural expressions from around the world.