Homewood Band - Spring Concert 2008

Well, Haiiley and I are both home sick today....yucky but at least it gave me some time to finally upload my videos. For anyone that has ever been involved in high school band you know that spring is concert season. Each band class performs songs that they performed at district and state competitions back in the winter. This is concert music and if you don't like concert music you probably won't like these videos!

The Jazz band is not a class but more like a club. They meet to rehearse before school every morning. This year's jazz band was the smallest I've ever seen but they still played very well. The band director is a trumpet player and he often jams with them. The Jazz band plays while everyone is still arriving and while the different band classes are changing out from the stage to their seats.

I had to be careful not to film too many videos so my memory card wouldn't get full before Hailey's band performed.

The percussionists performed one song with the percussion director standing in for someone who wasn't able to make it to the concert.

Next the Freshman band performed and they did very well. One of their songs featured a girl singing. I didn't video them though.

Next was the Symphonic band which is the band Hailey is 2nd 1st chair clarinet. They played five songs but I only filmed 3 of them and during the last song my memory card got full so it cut off the last couple of minutes (these are in no particular order as I can't remember the order).

After the symphonic band played the honor band performed. Honor band is mostly Seniors and I hope that Hailey makes it for next year.

As I was sitting in that auditorium I began to realize that my times there were limited. I've been coming there since Hailey's first middle school concert when she was in the 6th grade. How time flies!

Hailey met up with her friend Cami (who she's been playing in band with since 6th grade). Cami missed most of this school year due to illness but now she's back. She had to play with the Freshman band but at least she's still performing.

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Here's a picture of them together before a middle school concert when they were in the 7th grade.

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