Hastings Highs’ marching band and their color guard, performed a “haunted” performance at the football game at Hastings College on September 17th and performed competitions.
Hastings High School’s marching band and color guard have performed many different themes in recent years. The marching band and color guard have performed at multiple competitions and for this specific theme, “haunted,” they have competed in multiple competitions.
“I think it has been going very well. We have been improving a lot and having a lot of fun, we even got our first superior of the season at the competition of Columbus,” sophomore Kristin Scarlett said.
The Hastings High marching band and color guard have made plenty of themes over the previous years and will continue to make more as the years go on. But as the school goes through absences from quarantine and isolation from the ongoing pandemic, the band loses students for weeks at a time.
“Well, the color guard has been learning stuff for a while, probably since early July whilst all other band members started band camp which was around July 24th,” sophomore Logan Vraspir said.
The performance of this particular theme was a long process. The band had to learn where to walk, how to move, how to continue playing as they walk in a certain way, etc.
“Memorization and we have to memorize music and movement plus choreography during each movement,“ sophomore Alex Bargen said.
The group of students who have joined the band considers it a family. The students that are in the band joined because of something someone said, an inspiration, or because of someone.
“My brother, Christopher Studer, because he was a band member for as long as he could be,” Alex Bargen said.
The theme that is called “haunted” was executed by Hastings High students of the marching band and the color guard. It was a performance that is a “thrill” for the arts and encourages people to join.
“My aunt loved the arts and encouraged me to join,” freshman Jasper Grummert said.
