Band
Shawnee Pride was presented at Shawnee Community College in Ullin on Thursday, March 2.
The event brings band students from the area together to practice and then to present a concert.
Shawnee Community College band director Lee VanAlstine worked with students for one day before the performance....
Corinne Brown, a former band teacher at Dongola High School, was surprised to see several Dongola band students and their teacher in the lobby at Union County Hospital in Anna on Thursday, Dec. 1.
The students and their teacher were at the Anna hospital to perform a few Christmas songs for her.
Jim...
The Trinity Assembly of God in Olive Branch plans to host a community Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 5 p.m.
The Bobby Bowen Band is scheduled to perform. There will also be chili, hot dogs and a Trunk or Treat.
The event is open to all ages, however young children will need parental...
The economy may make funding for educational programs difficult, but one school is choosing to ensure it has money for the arts.
Children in kindergarten through 8th grade in Century Unit District No. 100 at Ullin will be given the opportunity to join a new band program starting Nov. 1.
Century...
High school and 8th grade band students from throughout Southern Illinois and the surrounding area will have a unique opportunity this school year.
Jim Childers, the director of bands at Marion Junior High School, plans to organize and host a regional honor band called The Honor Band of Southern...
In April, Dongola Unit School District No. 66 received new music instruments, thanks to the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation.
All five clarinets which were received are currently in use by students in grades 5 through 8. Three of the four alto saxophones and both tenor saxophones are in use. An oboe...
The Anna-Jonesboro Marching Wildcats trained at an annual band camp which began July 25 and is scheduled to continue through Aug. 2.
The camp is taking place on the school's practice football field.
The high school students fought off insects and the hot and humid weather to practice marching...
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