Memphis Regional Marching Band Competition

As usual I did not get many pictures of this past weekend. For one thing, it’s not easy to capture the whole scene with an iPhone. This is the Lake Hamilton band in preliminary competition, close to the end of their show.

I met Jamie and Sean in the parking lot just before 11AM. We walked over to where the band was…

and Jamie helped with the props. The show is called The Visionary and is themed on Leonardo DaVinci. The props include screens with drawings of four of his inventions and life sized models of them.

Sean and I went to the stands and Jamie stayed with the band to help them get all those props into the stadium and onto the field. I think they only get three or four minutes to move everything in place, which includes time to set up amplifiers and microphones.

This is close to the beginning of the performance, Adler is on the right, holding his tenor saxophone.

In front, on the sidelines, is the pit, xylophones and symbols and other percussionists, as well as the electronics they use.

The show starts with the screens in front of the props and turned so the drawings show. Here the screens have been turned to solid blue and are back drops to the actual devices.

The band made finals and this is the only shot I got of their finals performance. I did manage to catch Adler actually playing.

Here are all the finals bands lined up for awards.

Lake Hamilton ended up in eighth place, third in their class. They were happy with that result and I was happy to share the weekend with Jamie, Sean and Adler.