Building a music program from the ground up

SEELEY LAKE – Seeley Lake resident Sandra Abbott became the music director at Seeley-Swan High School last January. She is now teaching general music to all ages at Seeley Lake Elementary School including band to all sixth, seventh and eighth graders. She enjoys watching students learn and looks forward to rebuilding the music programs at SLE and SSHS.

Abbott started playing the piano when she was five years old. Her father played the trumpet and realized she was playing by ear. They started her in lessons with a local piano teacher in Missoula so she could learn to read music.

"I loved playin...