Merry Christmas
This was one I did many year’s ago. Merry Christmas!
Jubilation 2025
Here is a just for fun video using three unrelated songs from the Arrangers Publishing catalog entitled Jubilation. It features Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson arranged by Jay Dawson, Land of Make Believe (the old version) by Chuck Mangione arranged by Larry Kerchner and Joy by Joseph Curiale arranged by Tom Wallace. The band…
UIL Area Results 3A October 27
UIL Area Contest Results – 3A Tidehaven High School – Area D 27th Place Falfurrias High School – Area E 27th Place Tolar High School – Area B 18th Place Brazos High School – Area D 21st Place Luling High School – Area E 18th Place Orangefield High School – Area C 11th Place (Finalist)…
More Good News
Some more results from UIL and beyond. First, my first band from Arizona, Morenci High School performed at their first contest last Saturday, the Eastern Arizona College Band Day and performed to an excellent rating. Good stuff for their first time out. Two more shows happened today and both were 1st divisions. From Arkansas: Piggott…
Super Saturday Results
It was a good day as far as the drill writing side of things. I am going to include the 2 out of state bands on this listing that received 1st divisions or that equivalent that went last week. They are in the order they received them: South Walton High School, Santa Rosa Beach, FL…
UIL Region Contest Schedule
Here is Fred’s UIL Schedule for 2024 in chronological order (all are tentative at the moment): Tom Bean 10-16 2:45pm Region 25 Celina Big Spring 10-16 7:45pm Region 6 Abilene Crosbyton 10-19 9:05am Region 16 Lubbock Palacios 10-19 9:45am Region 13 El Campo Jayton 10-19 9:50am Region 16 Lubbock Boling 10-19 10:15am Region 13 El…
2024 City Populations
So, in my somewhat nerdy self who loves statistics, here are the populations to the cities of the schools that I wrote drill to. This has nothing to do with the sizes of the bands or how good they are, just the populations of the cities. Houston, TX 2,314,157 San Antonio, TX 1,434,625 Jacksonville, FL…
2024 – 13 – Stafford High School
The 13th displayed drill for 2024 is for Stafford High School from Stafford, Texas. Stafford is southwest of Houston, about 20 minutes from downtown. Their director is Rod Rodriguez. This is the 15th time I have done their show. They are a 4A UIL classified school in Region 13. Their show is entitled Blackbird Set…
2024 – 12 – Big Spring High School
The 12th displayed show for 2024 is for Big Spring High School from Big Spring, Texas. Big Spring is in deep west Texas about 50 miles east of Midland and Odessa. Their director is Gabriel Martinez. This is the 4th time I have done their show. They are a 4A UIL classified school in Region…
2024 – 11 – Putnam City High School
The 11th displayed drill for 2024 is for Putnam City High School from Warr Acres, Oklahoma. Warr Acres is a suburb of Oklahoma City and is just northwest of Oklahoma City proper. Their directors are Landry Tucker and Chase Gulliver. This is the first time I have done their show. Their show is entitled The…