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Marching Season Recap

10/20/2019

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What a weekend!

Friday night was Senior Night at our last Home Football Game.  Before the game began, we took time to recognize our Dragon Pride Band seniors and reflect on what they have accomplished and where they plan to go in the future.

​Many of our members were also involved in the Conference Cross Country meet.  (S/o to Coach Young for being phenomenal to work with!) Our kids ran hard and made it back for the halftime performance.  Special recognition goes out to Senior Lillie Kaempfe who ran hard at the Conference Cross Country meet and earned 1st Place!  
The band put on a strong performance of their 2019 Competitive show “Fabric of Time”.  As is our tradition, in the final set our senior band members stepped out of their shoes and left their marching shoes in the last set of the marching show.  This marks our seniors step toward the next chapter in their lives as they get ready to close out their marching careers.  

On Saturday, the band performed at the 34th Rebel Invitational in Park Hills, Missouri.  The band earned 3rd place in our class in prelims and made it to finals. The band played hard, and didn’t let a little rain stop us, and our finals performance ranked us 7th place out of 17 bands!

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Season Recap
Nobody outside our program knows where we started or how far we have come outside of our program.  As I said to our band members before our Finals performance, our program is special to our members for different reasons.  Our students come to us from all walks of life and take part in almost every other sport or activity at DHS. We have students involved in Football, Cross Country, Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Dance Team, Cheer, Softball, Choir, Art, Drama, Academic Team, Robotics, and FBLA.  These students spend countless hours in service of our school and community splitting their time between the variety of activities that they are involved with. Band means something different to each of our members, but it is a family for everyone.

I’m proud of all of you and I am looking forward to sitting down and making music with you all!

-Mr. B

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HOmecoming 2019 Pictures and THanks

10/5/2019

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To see all of our Homecoming pictures, check out our album on the De Soto Bands Facebook page.

Mobile Pep Buses

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DHS Pep Assembly

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Homecoming Parade

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Homecoming Game

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Thanks!

S/o to the admin, faculty, and staff at both Vineland and Athena for making our Mobile Pep Rally at both buildings a success!

S/o to Mr. Rauls and Mrs. Rodriguez for all of their work organizing both the parade and Homecoming festivities.

S/o to the alumni that return to march the parade with us every year!  Very proud of all of you and I enjoy the chance to catch up with you guys during the parade and football game.  

Special S/o to Mina Hartwell for bringing in Hoco Cookies for the band from The Broken Rolling Pin.  Check out their Facebook page and give them a call!

And finally, thank you to the band!  Homecoming is incredibly demanding, but you all pull through incredibly well.  With some of you playing the Fight Song over 100+ times and then performing well at half time, you all are to be commended for your hard work.  Keep pushing as we work toward the end of our season.  Onward Dragons!
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