It’s time for Pork and Bands: Sound the music; serve the BBQ!
The stage is set for this weekend’s Pork and Bands, the traditional end-of-the-year fund-raiser for the Warren County Music Department featuring good food and good music.
Now in its 33rd year, Pork and Bands includes a barbecue dinner and an assortment of entertainment including performances by the elementary, middle school and high school band programs, as well as the high school’s winter guard unit. The Silver and Gold Band will also perform.
According to interim high school band director Duane Farnham, Pork and Bands is the culmination of all of the hard work put forth by the high school band.
The band’s success began during the fall marching season. With a Latin-flavored show entitled Spanish Fantasy, the band performed at high school football games and competed in marching competitions in Lebanon, Ashland City and Crossville. In these competitions the band won several awards, including the posting of the highest overall score at the Cumberland County Marching Festival.
The high school’s jazz band recently returned from competing in the Southern Star Music Festival in Atlanta. There the jazz band received a grade of “excellent” and was the second highest ranked jazz band at the festival.
Not to be left out, middle school band students from across the county also saw their share of success. Competing as a concert band, the seventh- through ninth-grade students participated in the Middle Tennessee State Bands and Orchestra Association Concert Festival. The local band earned a score of “excellent,” scoring higher than 50 percent of the high school bands in the same classification.
Pork and Bands will be held Saturday night at Warren County High School. Dinner will begin at 4:30 p.m. and last until 6 p.m., when the performances will begin. Tickets, which will be available at the door, will cost $4 for only the concerts, or $8 for both the dinner and the concerts.
All money raised will help support the high school marching band next school year, as well as help all of the programs under the band booster umbrella.