Pre-performance fun!

Photos and videos are from before KOHS's Wind Ensemble's performance in the regional UIL competition this morning. Was this a dress rehearsal of sorts for the Orlando, FL, trip??

Two of the judges' tables

All set to go!

This is a video of Mr. Clearwater doing some last-minute practice and fine-tuning with students before the performance:


Ahhh, break time before the performance:


The unmistakable sound of a band or orchestra tuning up before a performance!

To hear the music they played, scroll down and find the three videos in the March 30 post. It's amazing and wonderful!

Contest Send-Off

Tonight is the first marching band contest of this fall, and here are photos and a video of the send-off that families gave the band and color guard as they left for Leonard George Stadium in Spring. It's all VERY impressive!




It takes 3 of these big Ryder trucks full of drums, percussion, and other instruments plus 9 buses and who knows how many cars to get the entire group anywhere ... to a game, to a contest, wherever! Such organization! And such support from all the families!!




And here's a video of the buses as they left ...

Honoring Band Seniors and Families

Thursday night, Sept 23, was when the Band Seniors were honored before that night's football game. What a nice, big, talented group of students!

Here are the seniors and their families as they were grouping themselves before walking onto the sidelines of the field. If you click to "biggify" this photo, you can see Ken in the red shirt at the very left of the photo. Anne is visible a bit more to the right (blonde, sunglasses), then Parker's head and shoulders (yellow shirt), and Austen's shoulders! Kira was there, but she's not tall enough to be visible!!

Here they are on the field: Parker, Ken, Austen in band uniform, Anne, and Kira. I'll add a video of all this if I can figure out how to get it off the camera and onto my computer!

Some pre-game shots of the Panther cheerleaders and others preparing for the football team to run out onto the field.

The band is preparing for their "stand music" which will include the National Anthem. It's a very large high school band -- well over 200 students.

First game of the season

Here are some videos of the first game of the KOHS season -- well, not of the game, but of the marching band's first halftime performance of this fall! It's very hard to hear the music because 1) they played facing the home stands (not us in the visitor stands) and 2) there were some REALLY noisy people sitting nearby! Oh, well ... that's a football game for you!

Just before school starts...

Last night was the marching band's performance for their families. Percussion units have been practicing since mid-July; the rest of the band and color guard have been learning new music and performance moves since the beginning of August. All their hard work really shows! It was a wonderful performance -- in sections and all together!

Here is the drumline with the rest of the percussion section in front of the stage. They are all just marvelous!

Here the entire band is playing, being directed by the three drum majors (standing on the raised stands). The drumline was still on stage, and the rest of this very large band was encircling the audience, mostly in double rows. The sound was amazing, and the quality of their performance was wonderful. They are fantastic, anyway, and to be this good after less than 4 weeks of practice as a whole is just awesome!

The color guard flag girls performed for a couple of minutes (next two photos).

And here are the members of the color guard who perform with "rifles" --

I can't wait for the first football game so we can see all of them performing all together!