Band
Spotswood High School was named a Virginia Honor Band in 2007-2008. This is the first time the band program has received this honor since 2004-2005. The Spotswood Fine Arts Program has also been nominated for the VMEA Blue Ribbon Award, which honors programs in that have worked towards a superior rating for the Marching Band, Concert Band, and Choir-which Spotswood High School did in 2007-2008.
Spotswood High School, in Penn Laird Virginia, has several musical groups - currently, concert band, wind ensemble, two percussion ensembles, a jazz ensemble, and the Marching Trailblazers, composed of winds, percussion, and the color guard.
The band program at SHS has won numerous musical awards in many categories for each group, including several Honor Band awards, which require a superior rating from each the Symphonic Band and the Marching Band. A Virginia Honors Band award requires that the marching band receive a superior rating (I) at the annual state marching festival, and the highest level concert band of the school also receive a superior (I).
As of 2011, the band has won 4 straight Virginia Honor Band titles and 6 overall since Greg Oaks, the director of Spotswood Bands, has been at SHS, as well as 2 VMEA Blue Ribbon Awards (2008, 2011).
There are usually two or three 'stage' concerts, in some combination of Concert, Symphonic, and Jazz, at SHS per year; in addition, the two concert bands perform yearly at the VBODA District Band Festival. The marching band performs at every home football game on Friday nights, as well as various competitions throughout the fall.
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