Eastern Hancock student Abby Waterman holds a drill sheet while she finds her spot on the field. Drill is the placement of each student on the field while they create different forms and shapes.
Eastern Hancock student Abby Waterman holds a drill sheet while she finds her spot on the field. Drill is the placement of each student on the field while they create different forms and shapes.
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HANCOCK COUNTY – School may be just getting started, but hundreds of local high school students have been back for weeks now, preparing drill and music for halftime shows and competitions throughout the fall.
Band camps have taken place at each of the county’s high schools. Here’s a look at each program’s new marching band show, and where to catch their first performances.
Greenfield-Central High School’s 150-member band will perform “Godspeed!” this year. The defending state champions’ show will include “Time After Time,” “Harrison’s Dream,” “On Then and Now,” “ and “Adagio for Tron,” and “Godspeed!”
The group’s first public performance will be at the home football game Aug. 26. The first competitive performance will be at Northwestern High School in Kokomo Sept. 17.
N New Palestine High School’s band will perform a show called “Cosmosis” this year, featuring music from Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.” There are 110 members in the marching band.
The band’s first home football performance is Aug. 19 and the group will also compete at the Northwestern Invitational Sept. 17.
N “Ding!” is the name of the Mt. Vernon High School marching band show, all about objects that make the “Ding” sound. The show will feature original music by Craig Fitzpatrick, as well as music from Michael Daugherty, James Newton Howard and Jay Kennedy.
There are 86 students in the band. The first home football game performance is Sept. 2; the first competition is Sept. 10 at Brownsburg High School.
N Eastern Hancock High School’s 2022 production is “After All This time.” The 41-member band will be performing “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” “Fanfare for the Third Planet,” and “Jupiter from the Planets.”
The group performed at the Anderson tartan Tournament of Bands July 29. This week, the band will compete in State Fair Band Day Aug. 5.
