Spring-Ford High School Marching Band Sweeps Awards

By George Growcott
Photos by Andreina Erwin

6:45 PM, Saturday September 15^th the Spring-Ford Marching Band entered into competition at Chichester HS.  This was the bands first trip into Cavalcade of Bands competition since the fall of 2010 when they walked away with the Yankee Division Championship, which was the third in three years. 

Well just like that November evening in 2010 the 2012 Marching Rams walked off with the highest score of the evening for there efforts of 79.95 along with the awarding of Best Drum Majors of the evening, Highest Music Effect score and Highest Visual Effect score.  The 125 member band presented about 75% of their 2012 production of “RED” performing the music with Russian base of “Hunt for Red October”, “Meadowlands” and “Russian Sailors Dance”.  Musical pieces from England “Nimrod” by Elgar and Japan by Dr. Andrew Yozviak completed the presentation. 

The band received very strong support from the viewing audience for their efforts as it continues to present their strong musical and visual presents during their presentation.  Under the leadership of their new director Mr. Seth Jones and staff which is made up by most of the last several years the SFHS Marching Band seems to off and running.

This Saturday evening the Spring-Ford Music booster host the fall marching band show where Spring-Ford Middle school will be showing off their 2012 show along with the Spring-Ford HS band as the two bands that placed just behind Spring-Ford Marching Rams last year in Hershey are coming town to see just how things stack up at this time to Spring-Ford.