FerrisHalliwell

Even though Liberty-Eylau didn't make it to State this year, the fact that they made it to both Area AND finals having a LONG term of 1, 2, 2s at regions makes me so very, very proud. And I'm sorry if LE's the only band I gush over, I AM alumni from there XD

Oops! I actually made a mistake on my description XD I was actually in the graduating class of 2015.

Prelim scores: Group I: 1st: Nolan Catholic (81.025) - captions in music, visual, effect, colorguard, and percussion 2nd: Frankston (77.525) Group II: 1st: Adamson (78.475) - captions in music, visual, effect, colorguard, and percussion Group III: 1st: Del Valle (83.500) - caption in music, visual, and colorguard 2nd: Liberty-Eylau (83.200) - caption in effect and percussion Group IV: 4th: (86.525) 5th: DeSoto (85.925) 6th: Magnolia West (85.775) This was as far as the video I saw of prelim scores went. I wasn't able to be there in person today :/

Hah, this seems interesting! I'm Jeff, I was a member at Liberty-Eylau High School from 2011-2014, marching clarinet my freshman, sophomore, and senior years, and conducting my junior year. Now I'm a student, and I volunteer working with colorguard at LE during the summers. Hopefully soon, I'll be able to help around more often. My nephew-in-law currently plays at LE as a flautist.

Indeed it was! Based on the iivestream video (which can be found here) it was a VERY cramped looking space, as well.

It's an interesting thing, why they chose it as they did. I guess it's a good contest to show off some smaller programs, but it's still a very odd choice.

I remember there being a thread on this last year, and I couldn't really find another thread about it (although I DID find one about the Western region championships!) It's going to be on October 20th, and hosted in Frisco this year, instead of Arlington. A lot of the performers are returning from last year, it seems, and, again, it seems like a lot of smaller ensembles. https://trigonroad.com/yea/eventDetail.cfm?searchState=&eventID=1878 12:15 PM Group I : Frankston High School (Frankston, TX) 12:30 PM Group I : Nolan Catholic High School (Fort Worth, TX) 12:45 PM Group II : Adamson High School (Dallas, TX) 01:00 PM Group III : Del Valle High School (Del Valle, TX) 01:15 PM Group III : Liberty-Eylau High School (Texarkana, TX) 01:30 PM INTERMISSION 01:45 PM Group IV : Birdville High School (North Richland Hills, TX) 02:00 PM Group IV : Fossil Ridge High School (Fort Worth, TX) 02:15 PM Group IV : DeSoto High School (DeSoto, TX) 02:30 PM Group IV : Cleburne High School (Cleburne, TX) 02:45 PM Group IV : Magnolia West High School (Magnolia, TX) 03:00 PM Group IV : Colleyville Heritage High School (Colleyville, TX) 03:15 PM INTERMISSION 03:30 PM Group V : Lovejoy High School (Lucas, TX) 03:45 PM Group V : North Crowley High School (Ft. Worth, TX) 04:00 PM Group V : South Grand Prairie High School (Grand Prairie, TX) 04:15 PM Group VI : Wylie East High School (Wylie, TX) 04:30 PM Group VI : Warren Central High School (Vicksburg, MS) 04:45 PM Group VI : Granbury High School (Granbury, TX) Finals begin at 7PM.

Liberty-Eylau made a 1!!! I'm so very proud of them! We've only made a 1 at regions once recently (in 2015). I've EXTREMELY proud of my band.

I was there when LE got a concert and sightreading sweepstakes in 2013 and 2014 (I know we got SOME sweepstakes then, we didn't make it in 2015, sadly). It was honestly the best feeling, knowing our hard work achieved something that great. I figured that the other Texarkana schools would struggle a lot too, like I said, Texarkana's not really an economically booming town (hence why it's taking me years to find a job!). Of course! I hope you didn't take my post the wrong way either! I very much appreciate it!

I can definitely see what you're saying here, with execution lacking. I do feel like it might be one of the biggest struggles LE has to overcome, and I know it's been an issue for a while. We've been trying our hardest and we break out of it occasionally, we do see though superior performances that we know we can do. Our band program doesn't get a lot of funding, almost everything we get is always fund-raised through the students, parents, and fans. They've been getting a lot better, when I graduated it was quite the mess, and quite a bit of restructuring happened that summer. Oops, sorry!!! I didn't even notice there was one when I was looking in there... They were definitely pretty harsh this year, normally Four States is one of our best scoring performances. On the plus side, according to my friend from QC, this was like, the first time they placed in a while. Texarkana, for all of its urban sprawl, is a pretty poor city when you live in it like I have. Not a lot of people have much money outside of the Pleasant Grove area, and especially in the LE area. Those would be the "ghetto" sort of areas you're talking about haha, believe me, I lived there. Like I said before, our band doesn't get much funding from the school, not like they get that much either, and our director practically has to get on her hands and knees for anything extra from them. A lot of our extra funding tends to be made from donations and fund-raisers by the kids and parents. I always love watching Four States, and other smaller marching contests. I love seeing smaller and not-as-well-known bands perform, especially when they have interesting concepts.

I found it kind of interesting how there wasn't a thread about this contest here, but I figured since, it being in Texarkana, I figure it's rather far away from the big epicenters of marching band in Texas. It happened last Saturday and I had a REALLY great time there, even though it was blisteringly hot. I stayed from ~1PM to 4PM, after Liberty-Eylau performed (although I watched someone stream the scores live). There were a lot of pretty great bands here (including my best friend's band from Queen City!), and I thought LE did pretty great (watch the video )! Although our scores, like always, were pretty mediocre (we have a tendency to score a lot of 1s in percussion and 2s in band and guard). Although our score was initial announced as a 1, 2, 3! I was kind of furious because I don't think the guard was a 3 performance. (It seems to have been a mistake, as the band director later reported the score as a 1, 2, 2, like we normally get.) Annnyyyway, I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts, especially on my school's show haha. I helped teach rifle with them over the summer. They've been slowly transitioning into more conceptual shows with more dramatic movement and guard work. This is only their second year doing shows like that (when I was there, we always did the sort of "stock" shows).

Well... last year I was looking for ANY information about Liberty-Eylau's performances and videos and it lead me here. I ended up finding very little, but now I at least have a place to talk about it haha

Liberty-Eylau's new 2018 show is called "Secret Society." I know no one ever talks about Liberty-Eylau because they're not especially successful, but I'm so excited for them!

Sorry to revive something kind of old, but... Does anyone have videos of the performances?

I'm not sure if this is entirely the proper place to put it (I'm not new to forums, but I'm never sure how to really act even after reading the rules, like, 5000 times so I second-guess myself), but I noticed North Lamar's show linked in the original post and well, I felt the need to post LE's to the group as well.