Southern Schools

Jake Voorhis is a music educator living in Beatrice, NE. He is a guitarist, bassist, and vocalist
primarily but enjoys every time he gets to make music no matter the medium. He has studied
vocal and instrumental music for the past 12 years and has been teaching music for the last 4. He
attended Chadron State College from 2014-2018 where he graduated with an Applied Music
degree. In Chadron, he also met his wife Megan Voorhis who is also a music educator and is
now the Music K-12 teacher at Lewiston Consolidated School. He began his teaching career in
Lincoln, NE teaching private guitar and bass lessons in 2019. After falling in love with teaching
there, he went on to complete the Post Baccalaureate Music Teacher Certification program at
UNL in December 2022. Shortly thereafter, Megan and Jake welcomed their first son, Bowen,
into the world in February 2023. Jake’s world is now concerned with making music with and for
his future students and raising his