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It's an exciting time to be in Hastings band

The Hastings High School Band will perform at Hastings Thornapple Plaza Friday night, performing a stand-still performance of the 2017 half time show "Saddle Up!" at 5:10 p.m. for Homecoming Week.

 

Following the performance, they will kick off the Homecoming Parade at 5:30 p.m.

Saddle Up! is a western themed show with show music including Home on the Range, Red River Valley, Oh! Susanna, The Magnificent Seven, The Good The Bad The Ugly, The Water Is Wide, The Devil Went Down To Georgia, and How the West Was Won.

 

The Hastings Marching Band competed at Rockford High School on Sept. 23. In Class B, they were up against Gull Lake, Wayland, Cedar Springs, Comstock Park, and Otsego.  With a membership of 138 students, Hastings was the largest Class B band in attendance.

The band performed extremely well and took home second place, with Otsego taking first. The band also win the caption of "Best Musical Performance."

 

Next week the band will perform in Exhibition at the 26th Annual Hastings Marching Band Festival. Other performances include MSBOA Marching Band Festival - East Kentwood High School - Tuesday, Oct 10 at 8 p.m.,  and Scholastic Competition - Dewitt High School – on Saturday, Oct. 14 with time to be determined. The final performance of the band's show will be a stand still on Sunday, Oct 15 at 3 p.m. in the Hastings High School gym.

 

Photos: (upper left) Drum Major Sam Waller conducts at an evening rehearsal.

 

 

 

 

(left) The 2017, 138-member Hastings Marching Band.

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