High school students from Butler and Seneca Valley traveled to Nashville several weeks ago and performed with nearly 700 students in a gala concert.

The students from the county were Amanda Sybert from Butler and Joshua Baktay, Hayley Hoss and Lance Hahn from Seneca Valley.

They went to Nashville as members of the 2013 National Association for Music Education All-National Honor Choir.

The students performed for thousands of people on Oct. 30 in the presidential ballroom of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in downtown Nashville.

The musical extravaganza included performances from a 150-member concert band, 20 jazz band instrumentalists and 350 vocalists.

Each student qualified for the national honor after first participating in state-level competitions and then competing against each other for a spot on the national honors ensemble.