‘HiScore’ being mastered by FHS Marching Admirals
Parent Preview set for 7 p.m., July 26, on Bill Clabo Field
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FHS staff Karey Lowdermilk, left, and Amanda Edsell - Tammy Cheek
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Vivian Abbott, rising freshman - Tammy Cheek
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Tessa Schlomer - Tammy Cheek
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Jumping during a drill are Audrey Aiken, front left, a rising senior, and Anna Kate Harris, rising junior. - Tammy Cheek
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Rising senior Audrey Redmon - Tammy Cheek
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Rising senior Sara Kiser - Tammy Cheek
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Rising eighth-grader Weiler Kappel, front ensemble - Tammy Cheek
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From left: rising senior Josh Hambrick with rising juniors Tyler Goodman and Hayes Kappel - Tammy Cheek
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Instructor Giovanni Misciagna, front ensemble - Tammy Cheek
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Rising senior Isabella Nega - Tammy Cheek
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Rising freshmen Makenzie Kinser and Elena Morris - Tammy Cheek
Farragut High School Marching Admirals are 180 strong as band members brave the July heat to learn this school year’s show, “HiScore.”
“We have camp going on right now,” band director Kenneth Carrico III said Wednesday, July 17. “It started on Monday, July 15, and will go to Friday, July 19 and then start again next Monday, July 22, and end on Friday, July 26.
“We will have a Parent Preview performance ar 7 p.m., Friday, July 26, in the FHS football stadium,” he added.
So far, Carrico said, the band is shaping up “great.”
“We have around 180 in the overall program and 150 in the Competitive Marching Band,” he said.
The drum majors leading this year are Maggie Doyle, Adriana Silvestri and Caroline Woods.
HiScore “basically is a pinball show,” Carrico said. “The field and props will look like a pinball machine.
“The main music will be ‘Pinball Wizard’ by The Who, but you will also hear themes of popular old-school arcade games throughout,” he added. “We just wanted to have some fun with this year’s show theme and make sure it would be something the students would really enjoy. They are already really excited about it and working hard on it as we speak. There will be plenty of exciting highlights throughout the show … even trying to work on some cool lighting effects, but that depends on a lot.
On top of the band as a whole, “there will the plenty of great individual and section features throughout the show,” he said.
The band will be competing Sept. 21 at Clinton High School, Sept. 28 at Karns High School, Oct. 19 at Western Carolina University and Oct. 26 at Seymour High School.
Also, the Knox County Band Exhibition will be hosted at FHS starting at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22.
“We won the Clinton and Karns competitions last year,” Carrico said. “We were sixth overall in music in Prelims out of 35 bands and did well overall at the (East Tennessee State University) Band of America Regional and was second overall out of 28 bands at the Alcoa competition.
The band performs during each FHS football home game, the first of which is Friday, Sept. 6 (versus Knoxville West), “which will be our first public performance,” the band director said. “Our final public performance will be Thursday, Oct. 31, which is the final home game… and Senior Night (Maryville).”
