On Tuesday, Pasadena High School became the 22nd and final school completed for 2020. This finally ends the drill season for this year. This has been the longest season as far as time which went from April to almost November. Overall, 22 shows, 14 rewrites, 715 drill sets averaging 32.5 sets per show for 1,463…
2020 was a crazy year. I finished with 22 schools this year which is down seven from last year but I came out lucky compared to others. Here are 45 second to one minute snippets of the shows that I did. Of the 22 schools, 12 are going to UIL using these drills. Several are…
So, this is what one does when he hasn’t been to work in three weeks! Actually, that is not completely true. This show was a just for fun show I did several years ago. I called it Latin Variations and there is a reason for it (one of which is that I never really had…
The twenty-ninth and final show completed for 2019 was for Monahans High School from Monahans, Texas. Monahans is the furthest west of all the bands that I write for about 35 miles southwest of Odessa. The school has 616 students and would be considered as a Class 4A high school in UIL Region 6. Their…
The last two come tonight. The twenty-eighth show that was completed for 2019 was for Pasadena High School from Pasadena, Texas. Pasadena is the first city east of Houston with the school about 20 minutes from downtown. The school has 2,793 students, the largest school that I write for and would be classified as a…
The twenty-sixth show that was completed for 2019 was for Rice High School from Altair, Texas. Altair is about 55 miles due west of Houston. The school has 349 students and is classified as 3A in UIL Region 13 (this is the last of the Region 13 drills, 11 in all). Their director is Oscar…
The twenty-fifth show that was completed for 2019 was for Hawley High School from Hawley, Texas. Hawley is in West Central Texas about 25 miles north of Abilene. The school has 209 students and is classified as 2A in UIL Region 6. Their director is Freddy Verastegui and this is the 5th time I have…
I’m going to double up tonight. The twenty-fourth show that was completed for 2019 was for The Heights High School from Houston, Texas. Houston is in southeast Texas and is the 4th largest city in America. The school has 2,348 students which is the 2nd largest school that I write for and is classified as…
The twenty-third show that was completed for 2019 was for Van Vleck High School from Van Vleck, Texas. Van Vleck is about 75 miles southwest from Houston and about 20 miles west of where I work in West Columbia. The school has 332 students and is classified as 3A in UIL Region 13. Their director…
The twenty-second show that was completed for 2019 was for Needville High School from Needville, Texas. Needville is about 45 miles southwest of Houston and about 20 miles from where I work in West Columbia. They are our friendly rivals. The school has 1,010 students and is classified as 4A in UIL Region 13. Their…