Oregon
East Oregon high school wins first-ever trip to state band championships
Members of the Elgin Excessive Faculty band pose for a photograph previous to a district band competitors in La Grande, Ore., in March 2022.
Tucker Murphey
For the primary time in its historical past, the Elgin Excessive Faculty band can be competing within the state band and orchestra championships. The highschool of fewer than 170 college students in japanese Oregon consists of Seventh- and Eighth-graders, 4 of whom had been ok to earn a spot on the 16-member varsity band competing within the state finals on Friday. In 2019, the band got here near incomes a visit to the finals however was disqualified for a efficiency which fell simply in need of the minimal size required underneath competitors guidelines. Erika Adams, a senior and band member who performs the flute, joins us, together with Tucker Murphey, the Elgin Excessive Faculty band and choir director.
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