The FHN band makes sure that they find the best people by looking towards the middle school band programs. One of the ways they’re pursuing recruitment this year is by doing concerts with both Barnwell and Hollenbeck’s band programs in order to encourage more people to join the high school band.

“The wind ensemble will play with the eighth graders from both schools,” band director Ryan Curtis said. “And we’ll do a shared concert playing the same music, so the high school kids will play the middle school music.”

The middle schools are going to send their bands up to North on March 13 in order to have them do a concert with our band. Curtis is hoping to inspire them to continue playing in band up into high school.

“I just want to get more involvement [and] more students coming up from the middle school into the high school band,” Curtis said.

The band members are super excited to get to do another concert and are really excited to have more recruitment for next year. It is important for them to keep getting new people for the band to be the best that they can be, and doing these concerts is an easy way for them to recruit more people.

“I didn’t even know high school band was a thing until the high school band director came in at the end of my eighth grade year and started talking about it,” sophomore band member Jackson Bland said.