MadisonBandMan1

Yes he is.

I am excited for our band next year as outlets new leadership will finally have a chance to completely design and run our program. It’ll be exciting to say the least. If you look at the improvement from our performance at fall fest to BOA SA, I can’t wait to see how that transfers into next year.

Also, if anybody has a video of my band, please send it to me!!!

It was so awesome meeting the TxBands contingency. I loved everything so much!!!

I have no words.

Soo... I was dumbfounded by Leander and Vandegrift. THEY. WERE. AMAZING.

Thank you all so much for the comments! It means so much! That was an amazing run. I definitely balled my eyes out at the end of that.

So the directors and I are doing a predictions challenge for this contest where we have to predict all the way to 35 since there should be a semis. Here I go. These are in placement order as well. 1. Ronald Reagan HS 2. Flower Mound HS 3. Vandegrift HS 4. Hebron HS 5. Leander HS 6. TWHS 7. Marcus HS 8. CTJ HS 9. Vista Ridge HS 10. James Bowie HS 11. Keller HS 12. L.D. Bell HS 13. Westlake HS 14. Cedar Ridge HS Finals Cut-off Captions: . GE - Ronald Reagan HS . Mu - Hebron HS . VI. - Vandegrift HS 15. Rouse HS 16. Cedar Park HS 17. Westwood HS 18. Round Rock HS 19. Lake Travis HS 20. Hendrickson HS 21. Copell HS 22. J.B. Alexaner HS 23. New Braunfels HS 24. Vista Murrieta HS 25. Timber Creek HS 26. Wakeland HS 27. Prosper HS 28. Wylie HS 29. Cypress Falls HS 30. Keller Central HS 31. TWCP HS 32. Pflugerville HS 33. McNeil HS 34. Pearland HS 35. Earl Warren HS ----------------------------------- Semi-finals Cut-off Next Four: . Douglas MacArthur HS . James Madison HS . Smithson Valley HS . Lehman HS Thank you for taking the time to read this post. What do you think? By the way, the semis placements are a little fluid.

Also thank you to those who mentioned ou program in this thread in the last few days,it really means a lot. Ididn't ask for it this year.

Haha I meant where do yall plan on sitting?

Who all will be there between the hours of 2 and 6pm tomorrow and where do you plan on sitting? I finally have time to say hi to you leandermomma and danpod!

Our stadium rehearsal is tonight, and we are still planing on doing it if the weather is not too bad this afternoon. We are making it into a sendoff event that I'll post over on the BOA SA thread. By the way, at 3:00 PM yesterday the temperature difference from Laredo to Amarillo was 55 degrees. It was 89 in Laredo and 34 in Amarillo. There are two different cold fronts pushing through this week. One that stopped in the middle of Texas for a couple days before pushing south this morning and creating an overrunning effect, and the second much stronger front pushing through tomorrow which will drop the temperature substantially and bringing the first sub-40 degree temperatures of the season for the greater San-Antonio metro. Then the skies will clear and the temperatures will rebound into the seventies this weekend like nothing ever happened. Talk about bipolar weather in the state of Texas, am I right?

I am going to reiterate this, but I think that keller has the best closer that any high school band has ever played. IT GIVETH ME ALL. THE. FEELZ. I can't fathom how amazing it's going to be when I watch it in person on Friday!! (Yes I'll get to be there nearly the entire day....so that means I will likely run into y'll at some point. I will probably be wearing my letter-man during the day.)

THIS. ALL OF THIS.

So I just got the opportunity to watch america's favorite cowboy band from oklahoma on da tube, and let me say that I love their show. It's beautifully performed and has all of the bells and whistles.

Just got to see a video of keller's prelims run here and their closer gives me all of the feels. I am in LOVE. This is why keller is one of my favorite bands.

THOSE CONTRAS!!!!!!!

Hey I just wanted to post a video of our UIL run this past weekend. Great run for us. It's crazy to see the skyrocket improvement that we have had in just the last two weeks. I am excited to finally start adding in the GE portion of the show for BOA and for cleaning . It's my favorite time of the year. Side note - I cried on Saturday, and with absolutely no shame. It was my last UIL Marching contest. The emotions starting with another one of the seniors in my section giving a great speech to the section before warm-up started and completely let out when our head director, the great motivational speaker that he is, started talking about the seniors before we started warming up. There is so much to remember from this year. I mean, who would have thought that we would do so well in a transition year. Who would have thought that this show would have become something special. When the show concept was announced at the end of may, the band was not very enthused to say the least, but now we take complete ownership over the show and I can see all of the heart and soul being put into what we do. We rehearse so well this year and I am in love with every moment. I just can't wait for y'all to see what we have in store for San Antonio. So, sorry for taking a moment to talk specifically about our program. I just wanted to get that off of my shoulders. Another side note - Somehow in the middle of our performance on Saturday I managed to get a decent cut just underneath my eye that left a line of blood down my face at the end of the show that I wouldn't have ever noticed if someone hadn't told me as we were getting ready to push the props off of the field. I never scratched myself there and never got hit there so I have no idea how in the world it happened. It was pretty cool to say the least though. I wonder if anyone in the stands noticed. https://youtu.be/kc6F9DlN4L0. EDIT: By the way, when the camera zooms on the pBone feature at the beginning of the closer, the kid that is standing in a wide "2nd position" and is tall is me. I'm the farthest one to the right.

Just watched the TSOPE show and I don't think I have ever heard a trumpet play so high in HIGH SCHOOL!!! DCI must be under his belt already or coming very soon.

By the way, Hanna and John B. Alexander were phenomenal!

Here was our 8th place performance from saturday. I hope you enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ11QZOCMJc.

You know what ensemble is being set up for a great year... Tom C. Clark high school. When I heard them in warm up yesterday they surprised me! What a great hornline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5VScllx7lo.

IIIIITSSS A SHOW DAY!!!!! Good luck to all of the ensembles out there today! Have your best run of the season so far! Cant wait to see you all when results are announced after we perform! I bet we are going wait for results down on the track like we usually do for results. I'm super excited!

It snowed at nationals in 2014 -- that was the first time that any of the kids from Tarpon Springs ever experienced any snow.

Will do! I am in an E&M course that is dual enrolled with UT Austin. It's a program called "OnRamps."