5-year-old drummer garners attention, college scholarships
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February 23, 2020
GREENSBURG, La. (AP) — When Alcorn State University's band director called Nicole Jackson in the fall hoping to meet and offer her son a college band scholarship, she was in disbelief.
It wasn't because he's not good enough, doesn't practice hard enough or she doesn't think he can make it to the college level. It was because he's 5 years old.
"I shook my head; then I thought, 'Oh, I need to get him a haircut before they come meet him.' It all happened so fast," she said.
Jeremiah Travis has become a sight to see at St. Helena Parish sporting events. Standing only as tall as the drums on the hi...
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