UCS strikes up the bands on October 5

All Utica Community Schools high schools will strike up the bands to raise funds for music scholarships.

The Eisenhower, Henry Ford II, Stevenson and Utica High school marching bands will perform at the annual Band-A-Rama at 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 5 at Swinehart Field on Shelby Road, north of 21 Mile Road across from Utica High School.

The bands will perform The Star Spangled Banner together and then individual schools will perform their half-time shows. The show is a great opportunity for the public to see the performance routine each band plans to enter in the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association festival.

Tickets are available at the gate: $5 for adults and free for children junior high school-age and younger.

All proceeds benefit the Louis Gonda Memorial Musical Scholarship, which annually awards more than $5,000 for UCS students to attend music camps or take private lessons.

Utica Community Schools was recently named one of the nation’s best communities for music education by the NAMM Foundation.