Top Brass

For as much as we tend to give our children props for their athletic success, I should note (pun intended) that I am equally proud of our son's ability to kick brass!

Time to toot our horn...

For the third year in a row, Carter was named to the Marawood Conference Honors Band – basically an "all-conference" selection for music rather than sports. The 14 schools in the Marawood Conference span from Assumption in the south to Park Falls in the north.

All of the honors participants spend the day together practicing for tonight's event. Free day from school! The location of the Honors Concert (which includes choir, too) changes each year. Thankfully, we only had to travel the 15 miles to Pittsville High School this year. That meant, it wouldn't be a super late night so Jim's parents could ride along, too.

The All-Conference Choir included 96 members, I think, with 10 of those selected from Assumption. Awesome. Under the guidance of guest director Dina Safford, they sounded great!

A composer named Jim Scheuer directed the band, which also played one of his songs. That was cool. I may be biased, but the band sounded phenomenal. We had a half-dozen band members represent our school. Coincidentally, 5 of our 6 were also in cross country this year. Royal talent runs deep, I guess!

Carter was among four baritone players selected in the conference. He is seated in back on the right side so I did not see him all night, but could hear him naturally (ha), and caught a glimpse of him during the final bow.

See? LOL. That will have to do. Of course, his band teacher was there all day, too, and got a nice shot of the AHS group. She knows how to take care of us scrapbooking moms!

Grandpa and Grandma Austin enjoyed the concert as well. Nothing like a little culture to launch the holiday season, right?

Congrats to all!