County Band

 All County Band was a couple of weeks ago at Riverside High School.  They practiced Thursday afternoon, all day on Friday (bonus to get out of school) and then there was a concert on Friday night.

Below is a friend of Scott's from preschool named Parker-he plays the saxophone-he is the one wearing glasses, a bow tie, and a black band around his neck for his instrument.  They don't go to school together anymore but still enjoy hanging out at things like this and his mom and I still pray together most weeks-it is special to have sweet, long time friends like that!

 Here are some of the few decent pictures I got of Scott back in the curtains at the very edge of the stage!  We laughed trying to find him, even with the long zoom lens of my camera-he was a few people in from the front of the stage.  Greg suggested later that tuba players should have one of those tall bicycle flags on their tuba and everyone is assigned a color so their parents know which one they are-since seeing them is usually not very practical!

They had fun preparing and had a great director-a former student of the man who is Scott's band director now!  Scott's favorite song was Crazy for Cartoons-which was just a fun peppy song to play and had some fun sound effects-one of the girls got to scream REALLY loudly and at one point everyone just got to play whatever note they picked!

 Exiting the stage!