SCBDA 2A/4A Upperstate Championships
2010 Schedule

12:15 Opening Ceremonies

Class 4A Competition

12:30 TL Hanna High School
Director: Richard C. Baskin
Assistant Director: Roger D. Whitt Percussion Instructor: Shon Brown
Front Ensemble Instructor: Matt Grubb
Guard Instructors: Jamie Bailey, Amy
Heintz and Victor Mooney
Show Title: Symphony for a New World
Selections: From the New World
Symphony by Antoni’n Dvorak

12:45 Laurens District 55 High School
Raider Band
Director: Andy Entrekin
Assistant Director: Lathan J. Pooser
Color Guard Designer: C. Wayne Owens
Color Guard Techician: Kim Crain
Percussion Technician: David Katilius
Brass Technician: Gregg Hinton
Logistics Coordinators: Stephone Smith and David Spivey
Drum Majors: Colton G. Nelson and Adrian Paige Entrekin
Show Title: "Samurai"
Selections: "Bushido", "Sakura," "Taiko
Odori," and "Seppuku"

1:00 Lancaster High School Marching Band
Directors: John K. Rhodes, Pam Sweer, Benjamin Hingle
Color Guard Instructor: Kristen Wilson
Drum Majors: Lakendra Clyburn, David Robinson
Show Title: SpyZone
Selections: Mission Impossible, Harlem Nocturne, Peter Gunn, For Your Eyes Only / James Bond Theme
Soloists: Scott Bryant, Alexis Wilson,
Steven Hendryx, Trevaris Clyburn

1:15 Clover High School Marching Band
Director: Eric Wells
Assistant Directors: Dan Lenard and Jonathan Rudd
Guard Instructor: Alisha Rudd
Front Ensemble Instructor: Anne Lewis
Woodwind Instructor: Lashara Gordon
Brass Instructors: John Brooks, Courtney Wyatt, Shelby Chiasson
Visual Instructor: Brad Vail
Drum Majors: Ty Beard and Samantha Cook
Show Title: Domino Selections: Original music by John Meehan

1:30 Rock Hill High School
Band of Distinction
Directors: Joe Gulledge, Randy Grantham
Assistants: Jessica Elvington, Victor Pullen, Cody Terlinde, Jeremy Shaw, Ruthie Rowell, Tery Ferrell, Chris Mack, Paul Guzewicz, Chad Boyles, Michael Skellett, Will Keith, Jodi Williams & Leigh Wisniewski
Drum Major: Aubrey DeCarlo
Show Title: “Rock Hill 3D: Determination, Desire & Daring!”
Selections: New World Symphony by Antonin Dvorak, Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Claude Debussy & Lex & Lois from the Metropolis Symphony by Michael Daugherty

1:45 BREAK

2:00 Wren High School Band
Director: Bruce Caldwell & Angela Tarbutton
Drum Major: Logan Campbell & Austin Cannaday
Show Title: Conquest of Gold
Selections: Conquest, Reverence, Machismo

2:15 Woodmont High School Band of Pride
Directors: Ryan Wooldridge
Assistants: James Bagwell, Luther
Sherman, Susan Wines, Derek Henson,
Kyle Campbell, & Ren Patel
Drum Major: Joana Fuller
Show Title: Rain of Fire

2:30 York High School Band

2:45 Easley High School Marching Band
Directors: Chuck Hamlett & Kristin Fletcher
Drum Majors: Erin Leonard & Abby Puckett
Show Title: "Dark to Light”

3:00 Riverside High School
Pride of Riverside Marching Band
Director: Kory Vrieze
Drum Majors: Asheeka Desai and Andrew Morgan
Show Title: CarnEvil

3:15 BREAK

3:30 The Pickens High School Marching Band
Directors: Laura C Brooks, Mason Mumford, Connie Douglas
Drum Majors: Elizabeth Whitaker
Show Title: “Rumba in the Round”
Selections: Part I, Part II, Part III

3:45 Lugoff-Elgin High School Marching Band
Director(s): Shanda Bean, Kevin Flowers, Gene Cameron, Glenn Price
Drum Major(s): Amanda D’Aloisio
Show Title: American Images featuring the music of Aaron Copland
Selections: Aaron Copland composed some of the most important and identifiable themes in American music history. The opener is an arrangement of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and themes from the 3rd Symphony. The second selection is The Promise of Living, from Copland's The Tender Land, an opera that tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States. After viewing Depression-era photographs Copland was inspired to write this opera. The final piece is based on the theme from The Red Pony, a movie adaptation of John Steinbeck’s episodic novella.

4:00 Northwestern High School
The Purple Regiment
Director of Bands: Larry Wells
Associate Director: Mark Yost
Assistant Director: Jocquin Fuller
Director of Percussion Studies: Bill Stowe
Color Guard Directors: Will & Elise Archie
Staff: Britni Edwards, Kyle Merck, Martin Patrick, Patrick Brown, Chris Mitchell, Michael McGinn, Jake Mitchell, Zack McCarter, Rick Langdale
Drum Majors: Jonathan Lovett, Morgan
Schroeder, Elizabeth Yost
Show: “Tradition, Tribute and Transcendence”
Music: The music of Tchaikovsky and Miklos Rozsa
Band History:
The Bands of Northwestern have been recognized for many years for excellence in all areas; marching, concert, jazz and color guard. The band has been the recipient of the South Carolina Outstanding Performance Award for the past 19 consecutive years. The Purple Regiment has been a consistent State 5A and 4A marching finalist for the past 14 years; winning two upper state 5A championships in 2004
and 2005. The band was the State 4A marching band champion in 2008 and the Silver Medalist in 2009. The Symphonic Bands have been selected on two occasions; 2000 and 2006, as the feature performers at the South Carolina Music Educators Association Conference. The Jazz band has performed in that same venue in 2006 and has been selected to perform this coming February. In addition, The Northwestern Jazz Combo has been selected to perform in the 2011 Jazz Education Network Conference in New Orleans in January.

4:15 Greenwood High School Golden Eagle Band
Director: Scott Maxie
Drum Major: Amanda Whaley
Show Title: "Phobias! What are you afraid of?"
Music of Aaron Guidry, Amy Lee, and Samuel Barber

4:45 AWARDS

DINNER BREAK

6:45 Indian Land High School Warrior Band
Directors: Mathew Willis, Scott Fleischman
Drum Major: Tyler Mitchell
Show Title: Tangents Angular
Selections: Tangents Angular

7:00 The Cadets of Woodruff High School
Directors: Barry Wash, John Carroll, Tonya Casey, Stormy Owings, Sam Aughtry, Zach Taylor, Brandi Brock
Drum Major: Rebecca Ballard
Show Title: Iditarod, Man vs. Nature

7:15 Pride of Pendleton Marching Band
Directors: Robert Smith & Margaret Walters
Drum Major: Rebecca Borders
Show Title: " Return To Rome" including Rome is Built - Remember the Fallen - Pagan Dance - Rome is Burning & Rome Lives!

7:30 Liberty Red Devil Regiment
Directors: Rudge Arnold, Cliff Green, Cameron McKinney
Show Title: Liberty, An American Saga
Selections: When Johnny Comes
Marching Home, Simple Gift-A Shaker Melody, America the Beautiful

8:00 Chesnee High School Marching Eagles
Directors: Carla Fowler and Chris Smith
Drum Major: Madison Freeman
Show Title: Metal
Selections: Tempered Steel, Alloys, Heavy Metal

8:00 BREAK

8:15 Buford High School Yellow Jacket Marching Band
Director: Alan Bishop
Drum Major: Clayton Boone
Show Title: Things That Go Bump In The Night
Selections: What Was That?, Haunted House, Zombie Rhumba, Confrontation and Escape...Maybe?, Run For Your Life!

8:30 Crescent Marching Tiger Band
Director: Austin Bobo
Assistant Directors: Josh & Lindsey Wade
Drum Major: Josh Wald
Show Title: Distortion
Selections: Distorted, Reve Rouge, Urban

8:45 Blacksburg High School Wildcat Band
Director: Shane DixonDrum Major: Logan Phillips
Show Title: Paradise
Selections: Fins, Volcano, Cheeseburger In Paradise, Come Monday

9:00 Mid Carolina High School
Rebel Regiment
Directors: Jed Thomas, Melissa Comley
Drum Major: Kalley Laymon
Show Title: Round-Up
Selections: The Magnificent Seven, The Promise of Living, Silverado

9:15 Andrew Jackson High School
Volunteer Regiment
Directors: Scot McGuire, Director; Brian Winn
Guard Instructor: Becca Bennett
Drum Major: Tammy Hancock
Show Title: Breath of Life
Selections: The Wind, The Earth, The Water, The Fire

9:30 Newberry High School Blue Brigade Band
Director: Elliott W. Rawls Jr.
Assistant Director: Kristin Caughman
Percussion Director: Christopher Shealy
Visual Esemble: Katherine Ragsdale
Marching Technician: Timothy Lawson
Woodwinds: Jessica Corbett
Staff Assistant: William Smith
Drum Major: Kevin Hunter-Bates
Assistant Drum Major: Brittany Dickert
Show Title: Into the Storm" Music of Robert W. Smith
Selections: "The Tempest," "In A Gentle Rain,""Into the Storm," & "In A Gentle Rain Reprise"

10:00 AWARDS