WOW!! It was such a pleasure to be able to attend and observe the Inaugural Arkansas State Marching Contest!
It was housed in two different locations to take place from 10am – 6pm on Tuesday, November 1st. The bands in classes AA and AAA performed at the North Little Rock High School Stadium and the bands in classes AAAA and AAAAA performed at War Memorial Stadium. It was organized so that the smaller classes would perform first at each location and each class had a sub-organization of performing from the smallest band to the largest band.
Of course, it is a State Marching Contest so you would expect it to be much more difficult to receive high ratings when compared to Region Marching Contest, but this blew me out of the water. Of the 27 bands in classes AAAA and AAAAA, only 9 got a first division. WOW!
The results for the day were as follows:
AA
1st Prescott (High Visual and Music)
2nd Piggott
3rd Gurdon
AAA
1st Arkadelphia (High Visual and Music)
2nd Dardanelle
3rd Pocahontas
AAAA
1st Paragould (High Visual and Music)
2nd Batesville
3rd Alma
AAAAA
1st Bentonville (High Visual and Music)
2nd Lake Hamilton
3rd Bryant
I can’t wait to attend next year while I am interning with the Cabot Band and I’m excited to eventually start taking my own band here when I am a band director!!
Evans Musical Sequences 