CM Marching Band keeping busy
From staff reports
BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP, PA – Central Mountain Marching Band has made quite the impression this school year. From parades to a first-place finish in competition, they have been hard at work doing the things that bands do.
Students in the CM Marching Band know that fall is synonymous with a busy schedule. Since the start of school, in addition to their normal rehearsal schedule and football games, the band has been participating in a lot of other activities as well.
September was full of extras. On Sept 9, band students and directors gathered at Murray Motors Lock Haven for a late-in-the-season car wash fundraiser. They rehearsed together with alumni from Central Mountain and former KCSD schools on Sept. 23, and then they all performed with the Lock Haven University marching band and Bucktail High School Drumline for the LHU/KCSD homecoming parade. And no one could forget the band’s charged, dynamite performance at the pep rally after the parade in the old LHHS gymnasium.
October has been just as packed with events for the band. On October 1, the marching band went to its first judged competition in years–a Tournament of Bands competition hosted by Wellsboro and Southern Tioga High Schools. They performed their show in full for a stadium filled with screaming band fans, and they came away with a first-place finish in their size category. Students had a wonderful experience performing in front of the ultra-appreciative crowd and experiencing the thrill of competition.
On Monday, Oct. 3, the band students traveled to State College to watch the USMC Band, “The President’s Own” perform an impeccable concert, where they were a polite and rapt audience for the performing band. (It’s a proud moment for a band director when you can take your kids to a prestigious concert like this one and they know just how to conduct themselves in the front row of the audience.)
In the weeks to come, the band will stay busy, starting this weekend, traveling to Garden Spot High School this Friday, where they have been invited to have dinner with the host high school’s band before performing at the football game. The next day, Saturday, they will be back up early to travel to Renovo for the Flaming Foliage Parade. Also coming up in October are the Lock Haven and Castanea Halloween parades near the end of the month.
