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...
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...
“I did a lot of things when I was younger, but I narrowed my focus to band when I got to high school and that helped me have more time to work on my instrument and practicing [so] band was my only extracurricular,” Couey said. “I was an all-state flutist three years in a row [because I scheduled time to] practice a lot [and still exceed in my classes. Also,] I was an assistant drum major my sophomore year [and a drum major my junior and senior year] at Marcus High School.
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,...
