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)
“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“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)