90.4!

The beginning of this year's band season was off to a rough start, but this weekend they did amazing. Saturday started off with practice from 8 to 10 in the morning, load the buses and travel for an hour to compete at 12:30, then practice for 3 hours, load the buses up again, travel for about another hour, stop for dinner then, our second competition at 9:15. I was a long day, but well worth it. We came in second with a score of 86.9. The band did a pretty good job and we were pretty happy. During practice we worked on some suggestions the judges had given us and made some other changes. One thing the judges have consistently told us this year is that the kids have the skill and working hard on the show, but they are not performing. They are just going through the motions and it was starting to affect our score. The staff is not quite sure what happened, but while we were practicing, the band started to show the performance attitude. The second competition was amazing. I actually believe it was a better performance than our championships last year. We received a standing ovation from all the other bands. The kids were so excited. Then when we heard our score of 90.4, we knew our hard work had paid off. That is a higher score than we ever received last year. We are currently in first place. They are going to have to continue to work hard to stay in first place. This is a video of the score announcement.