Jackson Memorial Marching Band winning hearts and minds
By Staff Report
By Marissa Parinello
The Jackson Memorial Jaguar Marching Band is looking better than ever this year. With their new show ” Project Return, Vietnam Revisited” the band has competed all over the state taking down the competition. Their entire show is based on the famous Broadway musical Miss Saigon, which is the tragic love story of an American solider and a Vietnamese girl during the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon.
The Jaguar Band has moved away from the usual persona of a marching band. Instead of the general ensemble of sequins, capes and feather hats the band dawns American army uniforms and traditional Vietnamese uniforms. Some other things in their show include a huge, mobile helicopter and an American embassy. All this, Band Director Bud McCormick says was to make the show as authentic as possible.
Memorial’s band is definitely having one of the best years they have ever had. So far they have captured three best overall titles and have come in first in their division in every competition they have competed in. The Jaguars have beaten over a hundred bands on the east coast this season.
Mr. McCormick says ” This is the hardest working and most dedicated group of kids this band has had in a long time.” In the next few weeks the band will be going to the state championships, the national championships, in Annapolis Maryland and the band has been selected to be the 15 minute act in the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Parade, on channel 6. Through out the year the band will also be in the St.Patrick’s Day Parade and the Cherry Blossom parade as the only band in New Jersey selected to perform in the parade.
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Posted by Staff Report
on Nov 2 2010. Filed under Featured News, Jackson Schools, photos.
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