Walton High School Band - Marietta, GA

Walton Band Camp 2024 Dress Up Days!

A HUGE Congratulations to the Walton Jazz Band I students and Mr. Clark on their acceptance to perform at the 2025 GMEA In-Service Conference! They will perform on Thurs, January 30th at 4:00pm in the Oconee River Room at The Classic Center!

There is still time to register for this amazing camp with Taylor Watts and Koji Mori! We hope to see your drum majors there June 12 and 13th!

www.TinyURL.com/NADMC2024

**Walton High School announces new
Co-Director of Percussion**

The Walton High School Band is excited to welcome Sean Phillips as the new Co-Director of Percussion. Sean will work with Colin Brewer as an instructor with the Marching Raider Band and will help guide all marching activities.

Sean Phillips is a veteran high school percussion instructor and adjudicator who currently resides in Woodstock, Georgia. After moving from Tampa, Florida in 2022, he served as a percussion instructor at Lassiter High and Roswell High and was the Percussion Director at Etowah High in 2023-24.

Sean hails from central Florida where he was a pillar in the marching arts activities. He was the very first Drum Captain of the University of South Florida "Herd of Thunder" Marching Band and was the Drum Captain while he marched in the Tampa Bay Thunder and Kiwanis Kavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps.

He was previously the Percussion Director of the Bay Area Percussion Ensemble; a WGI Independent Class A finalist and was the Percussion Director of Wiregrass Ranch High School during their 2019 4A FMBC state championship season. Sean was also the Percussion Director at numerous high schools throughout Tampa, where his ensembles won countless ‘Best Percussion’ awards and top honors at FMBC, FFCC and WGI contests.

Sean also proudly serves as a percussion adjudicator. His experience largely consists of various FMBC marching band competitions and FFCC indoor percussion competitions. He served on the panels for FMBC and GCGPC Championships.

As creator of the “Teaching that STICKS” clinic, and as a mentor for the FFCC percussion circuit, Sean has helped in the development of high school percussion instructors and student leaders throughout Florida.

Sean is a proud husband and father. Marla, his wife, is an 8th grade Language Arts teacher at Dickerson Middle where their daughter Stella is entering 8th grade. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida and is currently an Internal Communications Specialist for Tampa Electric.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our superheroes!

The Walton High School Spin and Dance Camp is a new offering for students in the 6th-8th grades (2024-2025 school year). Led by Walton Color Guard Coach Devon Kugler and many of our current Color Guard members, all of our camp participants will learn basic dance fundamentals and some technique on flag. All camp participants will also receive a special Spin and Dance Camp shirt!!*

https://tinyurl.com/NADMC2024

Hard to argue with these numbers! Congratulations to all our band seniors who completed their Fine Arts Pathway!

The graduation rate for Georgia students involved in Fine Arts Career Pathways has risen to 97.35%.

This rate – which applies to students who complete a Fine Arts Career Pathway – exceeds the overall state graduation rate by 12.95 percentage points, underscoring the relevance and effectiveness of Fine Arts Career Opportunities.

The creative industries in Georgia represent a combined $37 billion in revenue and $62.5 billion in total economic impact.

Completing a Fine Arts pathway indicates that a student is prepared to join the ranks of more than 200,000 working visual artists, actors, dancers, and musicians earning over $12.1 billion in wages in Georgia!

https://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and-Assessment/Curriculum-and-Instruction/Pages/Fine-Arts.aspx

Georgia Department of Education GAEA - Georgia Art Education Association GMEA: Georgia Music Educators AssociationGeorgia ThespiansDance Educators of GA Society Inc.

Congratulations, Mr. Jeffres, on your final concert at Dodgen MS and for an outstanding tenure as one of our band directors. We look forward to celebrating your final event at the !!!

We are so happy to get a chance to collaborate with the students of and in Jazz Band this Spring! Fine Arts is better, together! @

Please help us celebrate Mr. Jeffres’ retirement!! Go to TinyURL.com/MrJeffres to either leave him a note or sign up to play on his last Dodgen concert on Thursday.

Congratulations Jazz Bands I & II and Friday Jazz on wonderful performances at Jazz LGPE!!!!

2024-2025 Marching Band Registration is happening now! Go to WaltonBand.org, select “CLICK HERE to join the Walton Marching Raider Band!”, follow all steps to complete registration.

Spring Training Raider Game Score Update! Bringing new members gains your team extra points throughout the week!

Our last concert band event of the year!

Check out any of our THREE jazz bands at performance evaluation this Friday at Allatoona HS!

We are proud to host the 2024 Southeastern Percussion Ensemble Symposium!

It will be a season to remember…

Congratulations to Max and Zoë for being selected as GHP Finalists on clarinet and tuba, respectively. They’ll spend four weeks in this amazing program this summer and we’re very proud of them!

Join THE Walton Color Guard!!!

Congratulations to our Winter Guard and Junior Raiders on a great community show!

Do it before you leave for Spring Break so you won’t have to remember when you get back! https://waltonband.membershiptoolkit.com/packet/27567

It’s going to be an amazing season! Info/Registration link can be found in the bio.

We are very very proud of the Walton Wind Symphony.

Bravo to our Dickerson and Dodgen bands for some AMAZING LGPE performances this week (we know Dodgen 7th goes tomorrow, but they will also be awesome). Congratulations to all our future Raiders!!

We are so excited to perform Thursday night at 7p at the Rialto Theater in downtown Atlanta! All are welcome to attend to support these wonderful students.

Congratulations to our Winter Guard!!!!

Congratulations to all of our concert bands for wonderful performances at our 2024 District Large Group Performance Evaluation. We are SO proud of all of our students’ progress. It’s been a memorable few days.