Every year, while most students savor the final weeks of summer, another group is already hard at work under the July sun: the high school marching band. From early-morning drills to late-season November...

Blood. Sweat.  Tears. It takes everything to perform in front of an ecstatic crowd.  In a matter of just ten minutes, they give it all to create an electrifying performance.  After being...

  After winning the Winter Guard International Dallas Regional on March 2, the Spirit Winds will be traveling to Dayton, Ohio for the WGI World Championships from April 18-21 and will showcase...

The Essence Colorguard competed in NTCA Championships on Saturday at Mansfield HS. They placed third in their round and fourth overall, out of the 36 Scholastics AA teams that competed for the day....

Last Saturday, the Spirit of Joshua marching band placed sixth at USBands Saginaw Regional. The last time the SOJ advanced to finals at a marching band competition was 2018.  “The morale of the band...

First. To hear that one word opens brains to an infinite number of emotions which compels humans to reach for it again.  All of her life she has been on the podium. Fiyinfoluwa Olajide settles for...

Joshua’s 2021 head drum major, senior Josh Bischops, made a vast leap to the band’s highest position, from distance-learning his entire junior year to everybody’s eyes on him this year. Last year,...