BANGOR — “The Nite Show” with Danny Cashman will present a special edition of the show with high school students taking over as guests and members of the crew. “High School Nite” will air on Saturday, May 30, and was produced in conjunction with Husson Alive: The NESCom Experience.
“We have been looking forward to this for quite some time. The high schools in Maine are such a resource for tremendous talent and personalities that it was easy to find great guests for our show,” said “Nite Show” host Danny Cashman. “On top of that, despite doing a high school themed show, my transcript continues to go unchecked, keeping my dirty little secret alive that I never passed high school English — or science.”
Viewers of “High School Nite on The Nite Show” will see guests hailing from high schools in Maine. Among them, Nick Danby of Bangor High School, ranked second in the United States by the National Speech and Debate Association, will be interviewed on the show. Alex Quinn, winner of individual awards for outstanding musicianship at both the Maine State Instrumental Jazz Festival and the Berklee High School Jazz Festival will be sitting in on trumpet with the show’s house band, the Jump City Jazz Band. The Division II winners of the Maine State Vocal Jazz Festival — the Unified Harmony Show Choir, made up of students from Stearns and Schenck High Schools in Millinocket and East Millinocket, respectively, will perform a selection from “Wicked” on the show. And a guest announcer from Dirigo High School in Dixfield will join “Nite Show” announcer Joe Kennedy for the show’s introduction.
Husson Alive: The NESCom Experience brought together high school students from 10 schools in Maine and New Hampshire to learn about NESCom for a day. Those students spent the day working on everything from marketing to video and audio production. At the end of the day, many students were involved in the actual production of the show, including running cameras and technical directing “High School Nite.”
“High School Nite on The Nite Show” will air in the show’s regular time slots, statewide, on Saturday May 30: WABI TV5 in Bangor at 11:30 p.m.; WPFO FOX23 in Portland following Major League Baseball and the FOX23 News at Ten (likely between 10:30 and 11 p.m.); and WAGM FOX8 in Presque Isle at midnight.