Go Kingston Bucs Marching Band!
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The Kingston High School Bucs Marching Band came in second in text voting in the KZOK The Rock Woodfired Pizza Battle of the Bands. View their video rendition of Golden Earring’s Radar Love here.
As one of the top 10 bands from across the state, the Bucs will now be judged by four celebrity judges to determine if they receive a prize in the contest. The Facebook page for the contest has a lot of great information.
Celebrity judges are: Andrew McKreag of the The Presidents of the United States of America, Geoff Tate of Queensryche, Gerard Schwarz, conductor of the Seattle Symphony, and Brad McDavid, director of athletic bands at the University of Washington.
Top prize in the contest is $10,000; second prize is $5,000. The “No School Left Behind” Prize is $2,500. Fourth through seventh place bands get a pizza party worth $750 .
When I interviewed band director Adam Campagna about the contest back in December, the young director was hoping KHS would rise to the top of the competition. Working in high school just three years old means Campagna is really building the band program from the ground up. If KHS wins any money in this contest, it will be used to buy music and boxes for transporting uniforms, as well as putting on clinics for students.
Band booster President Rich Wendt called me tonight with the awesome news that Kingston was second in the top 10 bands. He was very excited and said the community has really rallied around the band, texting votes in religiously. Wendt reported that even while pumping gas he’s recognized as a band booster and informed by folks that they’ve been voting. He must be doing all the right things. KHS is one of the smallest schools in the contest and yet it placed second in the volume of text voting. Go Bucs!
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