Marching Band Ended...

Really Old Marching Uniform

A while ago and I am just now getting to writing the year-end summary. The 2015 show was 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' a swashbuckling, pirate adventure.

Firsts for 2015 year:
1. The first annual district parade band. (Everyone hated Bingham because we beat them at... everything.) Who doesn't like play Uptown Funk over and over and over and over and over and over again?
2. First year with very elaborate props.
3. Dropped back down to 4A, but got trophies and awards!
4. Changed the horn flash in Coach from and M to a V.
5. Changed the shako decorations, from chains to solid bands.

Old band on the left, new on the right.

6. This came into existence.
7. First year with Bryce Riley as instructor.
8. Assigned jobs for unloading the trailer.

Interesting events:
1.  Halloween in Saint George. Some went reverse trick-or-treating. Others went swimming.

Making Halloween costumes with what we've got. From left to right: Candolf the Colorful, Tree, Friendiless the Elf.

2. Watching the instructors teach the color guard to fight. (Stabbing people is hard, you have to go through all sorts of muscle and sinew and stuff.)
3. Learning how to Whip and Neigh Neigh during band camp. (The color guard put it in their show.)
4. Mellophones were nearly extinct during band camp. (One mello made pirate pictures out of turf turds when he couldn't march)

5. Pirate Jokes. Why is it so hard to play card games with a pirate? Because he's always standing on the deck!
6. Learning how to show emotion in our performance. Pain. Yearning. Hope. (Or three different kinds of sternness. We are pirates after all.)
7. Someone split their supersuit while marching. (He was really into the emotion of the show or something.)

8. The Inigo Montoya visual. Channeling our inner 18th-century Englishmen. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my mello, prepare to die.
9. Graber Shirts. (People in California wondered if he was a character from Star Wars.)