Band
A highly successful organization, the Piedmont Band (Marching Panthers) has become well-known, beginning in 2004, when they won their first Grand Champion award at the East Rowan Food Lion Classic. They won a second Grand Champion award in 2005. They have become even more prestigious in the 2007-2008 school year when they won two Grand Champions in one day at two different contests. Also in 2007, they won Grand Champion at the Porter Ridge Contest, totaling three Grand Champions in one marching season. In 2009, the Marching Panthers attended their first Bands of America competition. They competed at the Georgia Superdome and intend to continue competing there annually. Each year, the Piedmont Band brings a new style of performance and receive numerous Grand Champions/Superior ratings at local, state, and national-level competitions. The concert band frequents in performing in an annual MPA competition, in which they receive Superior and Excellent ratings. Each year, select students qualify for the County, All-District, and State ensembles.
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Famous quotes containing the word band:
“The band waked me with a serenade. How they improve! A fine band and what a life in a regiment! Their music is better than food and clothing to give spirit to the men.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“There was a young lady called Gloria
Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier
And then by six men
And Sir Gerald again
And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.”
—Anonymous.
“And the heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters o’er,
When a band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.”
—Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1783–1835)