Whether it’s getting to miss a few classes or enjoying the numerous acts, Fine Arts Week is many students favorite week of the entire school year. The week will include performances from colleges in the area as well as student groups such as Sketch Comedy Club, York Dance Company, D.O.H.O, Amatuer Muscians and many more.

Fine Arts Week’s events are also predominantly student run. This year’s Fine Arts Week will have two visiting feature acts; Lily and Madeleine a folk pop duo from Indianapolis, Indiana and Modern Vices, the garage rock five-piece which is made up of former York students.

Fine Arts Week will run from Feb. 2 -6. There will also be an after school show of Wednesday, Feb. 4 featuring The Rented Mules, Bloody Mary, and They Found Us

Featured performers profiles:

Modern Vices

Modern Vices is a local garage rock band composed of York High School alumni Alex Rebek, Peter Scoville, Thomas Peters, Miles Kalchik, and Patrick Hennessey.Their music sounds like Buddy Holly twisted with the high octane vibrations of today’s garage rock and indie scene. They will be performing on Wednesday, Feb. 9 in the Baker auditorium sixth and eighth period as part of the York Fine Arts Week festivities. Modern Vices self titled LP was released last October on Autumn Tone Records and is now available on iTunes.

Lily and Madeleine

The folk-pop duo Lily and Madeleine will be featured guest performers during this year’s Fine Arts Week. Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz are two sisters from Indianapolis, Indiana, their music features the two playing acoustic guitar and piano as well as beautiful, haunting vocal harmonies. Their second studio album “Fumes” came out in Oct.2014. Lily and Madeleine will be performing sixth and seventh period in the Baker auditorium on Thursday. They will also be doing an invite only show eighth period on Thursday.