Cedartown High School’s marching band is entertaining crowds this year with popular tunes under the direction of veteran band director Tom McGarity.

This year the band is playing hits from the group “Earth, Wind & Fire.”

“We played one of Earth, Wind, & Fire’s tunes during our spring concert and afterwards my seniors came to me because they had liked it so much they wanted to play more this fall,” said McGarity.

McGarity said playing the music has brought some unique challenges.

“That style of music is more of a jazz and funk style, which has a lot of syncopation.” McGarity said. “That is when the accents fall on normally weak beats. And playing more jazz creates a lot of articulation issues.”

Senior Sofie De Wandel is drum major for the band. She was assistant drum major last year as well as a flute and piccolo player in the concert band.



The Band

Baritone:

Bailey Bell

Bryceland Brown

Tiana Davenport

Christian Hernandez

Caleb Lester

Jordan Parrish

Alejandro Perez

Clarinet:

Madison Allison

Meghann Bentley

Sarah Bollen

Aleah Cooper

Christina Daniel

Valerie De Wandel

Jordan Dobbs

Cordelia Dyer

Trent East

Courtney Geers

Kaitlan Gibson

Jennifer Hodge

Dellneisha Holiday

Noah Hudson

Brittany Jacobs

Brittany Maddox

Cassie Mccrickard

Lizbeth Rangel

Myra Stephenson

Kristin Strickland

Victoria Summerville

Elizabeth Zamudio

Drum Major:

Sofie De Wandel

Flute:

Lexie Barnett

Gabby Bates

Dakotah Cubillo

Ashley Gable

Sabrina Guzman

Jazmen Ingebrigtsen

Jodi Ingebrigtsen

Jade Lester

Sequoia Miles

Cheyenne Moncrief

Tristin Puckett

Nicole Sewell

Molly Weaver

Guard:

Symba Arbuthnot

Ashleigh Barnett

Taylor Cleland

Brandi Currey

Ira Curtis

Annie Davis

Kayt Dempsey

Leah Gokey

Denisha Hudgins

Keila King

Dana Lee

Cayden Litesey

Marili Ortiz

Jacqueline Sewell

Elsey Sibrian

Shatira Spears

Brianna Weathington

Breanna Worfford

Mallet Percussion:

Karen Bevis

Michalla Guzman

Selena Martinez

Akea Price

David Wallace

Erica Wiggins

Mallets:

Alexis Wisham

Mellophone:

Jerod Evans

Rebeka Neal

Holly Robinson

Percussion:

Brandon Cabrera

Eric Calhoun

Dennis Chastain

Haila Crile

Stormy Crile

Arthur Glass

Chris Holiday

Bobby Jenkins

Brandon Lee

Tyrell Pace

Justin Payton

J.W. Perry

Bryson Rainey

A.J. Washington

Dalton Wheeler

Saxophone:

Noah Beck

Christian Blankenship

Rafael Cornejo

Nicholas Fields

Laura Flores

Melissa Flores

Pedro Flores

Avery Lawrence

Fredy Segura

Tristan Walker

Tenor Sax:

Demisha Hamlin

Trombone:

Chase Cowan

Sammy Gibson

Kaleb Smith

Trumpet:

Christian Adkison

Michael-Lee Chafin

Thurston Cubillo

Ian Curtis

Arian Jolly

Tanner Mehrkens

Aaron Mobley

Emma Mobley

Dalton Myers

Robert Peek

Uriel Rangel

Blake Shellhorse

Zack Summerville

Aaron Thaxton

Miguel Uriostigui

William Weaver

Dalton Woodward

Tuba:

Johnathan Ayers-Kyser

Raequon Galvan

11th grade

Tuba/bass guitar:

Christian Jason Price

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