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All Star Band

The date for the All Star Band rehearsals and performance is the 27th and 28th of January. The event will be held at Alpena High School in 2023.

Please contact Kim Gordon if you have any questions.

The Junior All-Star Band consists of students from grades 7 through 9
The Senior All-Star Band consists of students from grades 10 through 12.
If you are a 9th Grader who wants to try out for both groups you are allowed to do so. Make sure to mark your audition recordings with which group you would most want to be in.

Students will need to download the audition music (found below) along with the chromatic scales (Scales must be recorded at 120 beats per minute starting as of 5-4-2016). Students then record their auditions and submit by the first part of January. Band Directors get together to listen to the auditions the first week after Christmas vacation and will make All Star Band Rosters that week.

All Star Band Guest Conductors

For January 2023 our Guest Conductors will be Roger Stevens and Norm Witka

All Star Band Schedule for Jan 2023

Friday, January 27, 2023
4:30-4:45 - Arrive at Alpena High School
4:45 - 5:45 PM - Sectional rehearsals at Alpena High School
6:00 - 9:00 PM - Rehearsal at Alpena High School
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Saturday, January 28, 2023
​9AM - Noon - Rehearsal at Alpena High School
Noon - Lunch will be provided
​2:00PM - Concert begins

Importants Information for those that have been choosen

  1. Arrive with your music well prepared beforehand.
  2. Bring a pencil to rehearsal - you are a musician.
  3. Bring your school uniform for the concert on Saturday.
  4. The concert begins at 2PM there is no admission fee.
  5. You will be provided lunch on Saturday. Only a snack will be provided Friday, so eat supper before arriving at rehearsal.
  6. PERCUSSIONISTS - Bring your own mallets

Important News About Submitting Recordings

As of the 2015-2016 school year we will be following a new process for submitting student recordings!

We are in the process of testing out the process of using Google Drive and having a shared folder. All Directors will have access to that folder. Directors will then be responsible for uploading mp3 recordings of their students into that folder before the listening date.

The Google Drive process will be fully working for you as soon as Paul Shimmons in Farwell gets your gmail email address. Everyone can then get familiar with the process through the months of September and October enough that the actual audition process will go without a hitch. 
How to record for All Star Band
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Music for All Star Auditions

Junior Band Audition music for Jan 2023:
jb_chromatic_scales.pdf
File Size: 17 kb
File Type: pdf
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2022-2023_junior_band_set_e__triangle__all_star_music.pdf
File Size: 227 kb
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Senior Band Audition music for Jan 2023:
sb_chromatic_scales.pdf
File Size: 21 kb
File Type: pdf
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2022-2023_senior_band_set_e__jubilation__all_star_music.pdf
File Size: 1045 kb
File Type: pdf
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All Star Band History

​​​2023 -  
Conductors - Roger Stevens and Norm Witka
Senior Band - 
Junior Band - 


​​​2022 -  
Conductors 
Senior Band - Junior Band - Charles and Mary Land

Composer of a newly commissioned piece of music for District 9:
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2021 - The year of Covid

​​2020 - 
Conductors
Senior Band - David Thornton from MSU
​Junior Band - Tiffany Engle from Calvin University

​2019 - 
Conductors
Senior Band - Tom Golden
​Junior Band - JoAnn Gross

2018 - 
Conductors
Senior Band - Marky Mark
Junior Band - Roger Wyersburg

2017 - 
Conductors 
Senior Band - Steve Grugin
​Junior Band - Tom Clair

2011 - 
Conductors 
Senior Band - 
​Junior Band - Andy Dunham

All Star Band Past Programs

all_star_band_program_2018.pdf
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