GBMS band excels at competition
FROM STAFF REPORTS Gulf Breeze News news@gulfbreezenews.com

Incoming sixth grade students interested in joining the Gulf Breeze Middle School band are encouraged to join band organizers May 19 in the school's cafeteria.

Here are the results from Solo and Ensemble Festival: Gulf Breeze Middle School (GBMS) band students earned 89 superior ratings and 19 excellent ratings. All of these students earned personal medals for their performances. The band's directors are extremely proud of their students and would like to congratulate all of the musicians for entering this event. It was totally voluntary and required a great deal of extra practice on the part of the students.

The symphonic band will be participating in District Festival at Fort Walton Beach High School on April 17. Parents are invited and encouraged to attend this performance and cheer us on to superior ratings. The performance begins promptly at 8:45 p.m. in the Fort Walton Beach High School auditorium. The students have been working very hard for several months to prepare for this music performance assessment.

The Spring Concerts will be held at St. Ann's in Gulf Breeze on May 15, starting at 6:30 p.m. All three bands will be performing. The beginning band plays at 6:30 p.m., varsity band at 7:15 p.m., and symphonic band at 8 p.m.

This year, the band is asking everyone to bring canned goods to the concert. They are calling it "Cans for Concerts" and the slogan is "Please bring in cans to help us thank St. Ann's." All of the canned goods will go to the St. Ann's food pantry. The Boy Scouts of America will be helping them box up the cans and get them to the appropriate area of the church after the concerts are over.

The beginning band will perform for the incoming fifth graders at orientation on May 19 in the GBMS cafeteria. Band instrument try ons are being held on May 27 and May 28 from 2:30 to 6 p.m. in the middle school cafeteria. This is an opportunity for all incoming fifth graders, as well as any middle schoolers who want to start band in seventh or eighth grade, to try all of the different instruments with a professional musician guiding them through the process. Students may also sign up for band after they select the instrument that they are going to learn to play.