There are 150 high schoolers with whom Keith spends the better part of six days a week from mid-July to mid-November. This is in preparation for the highly competitive marching band season that takes on a way higher precedent than merely performing during football games on Friday nights.
This year's show was titled "Unchained" with Unchained Melody as the soft, sweet ballad for the show. Band parents run fundraiser after fundraiser and spend long hours building props, making food and tending to the kids needs. Keith and the other devoted band directors bring in talented staff to design concepts for the show to make it truly an experience for the band kids - from a week long Band Camp to the last show at Grand Nationals in Indianapolis.
The kids perform tirelessly for these four months. Keith loves working with the kids is always excited for the next achievement the group will hurdle. His thoughts and actions are consumed 100% by this activity... as this is what he expects from the kids, too. I got the pleasure of being absorbed by the magnitude of this organization by helping out with the colorguard for a some practices and competitions. We consider ourselves blessed. It is amazing what these kids can do!
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Opening set of this year's show as
guard surrounds with chains. |
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| Colorguard photo op. |
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| CCMB on field for awards in Akron. |
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| Grand Nationals in Indianapolis. |
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