Lexington High School Band

“One more time” has become “One last time”. The 2023 marching season is complete for this group of young performers. The 2023 Pride of Lexington has come a long way since band camp in July and gave a stellar performance at the Tennessee Division II State Championship at Stewarts Creek High School. The band finished in 13th place and earned “Excellent” ratings in Band, Percussion, and Color Guard as well as a “Superior” rating in Drum majors.

To the students:
Congratulations everyone. I hope you can take a moment now and reflect on all the joy you’ve brought to the people around you this season. Every year you continue to grow and surprise me in different and amazing ways. You are my biggest source of pride and I love you all so much. This is the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one. Take some time to rest, reflect, and prepare yourselves for the next journey which I know will be equally amazing.

To the parents, community, and our sponsors:
Thank you for all of your continued love and support for this amazing group of young people. You continuously give and sacrifice to help make the best experience possible for us. We are so grateful and lucky to have you at our side and we could not do what we do without you.

Bethel University Competition Results

Class BB:
Band - 1st Place
Percussion - 1st Place
Color Guard - 2nd Place
Drum Majors - 1st Place

What a great way to spend a Saturday. Now we are coming up on State week!!!

The Pride of Lexington does it again!

West Tennessee Small Band Championships

Class 5A Results

Band: 2nd Place
Guard: 2nd Place
Percussion: 1st Place

Overall (out of 20 groups)
2nd Place Band
2nd Place Percussion

RESERVE GRAND CHAMPIONS!

This group makes great gains every week. Two more competitions left for the 2023 season!

We will be having a book drive to build some store credit with McKay's in Nashville. If you aren't familiar with McKay's, you can take old books, CDs, DVDs, certain electronics, etc and trade them in for store credit. We are trying to build up some store credit towards purchasing any instruments that would be helpful for our growing band program. We will accept donations at the band room any time between October 10th and November 3rd. Perfect time for cleaning out unused items as we prepare for different holiday decorating seasons. Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Thanks!

Huntingdon Marching Invitational results:

Class 3A
2nd Place Band
2nd Place Guard

Small Division
5th Place

For the first time in at least five years, the band made finals at HMI. They were able to give two great performances. Proud is an understatement to describe how everyone felt watching this group perform today. ENJOY YOUR FALL BREAK!

We put in some work and hours yesterday as we travelled to Union City to perform at the WTSBOA Marching Festival and Union City Invitational. The Band gave a great performance in the morning and an even better one in the evening. Come out and see us perform next week at the Huntingdon Marching Invitational!

WTSBOA Festival Results
Percussion: Superior
Color guard: Excellent
Drum Major: Excellent
Band: Excellent

Union City Invitational
3rd Place Band - Class AA1

Congratulations to The Pride of Lexington for winning first place percussion in Class AA-1 at the South Gibson Hornet Invitational today in Medina. We were up against some tough competition and our band gave a great performance today. We got a good read from the judges and some great comments to help us improve as we go into our double header competition next week at Union City!

You’ve still got 15 minutes to get out to Meet the Tigers at LHS!

GET ON YOUR FEET TIGER FANS!!!

The LHS Band is selling "Friday Night Lights" door hangers to families of all and students. These hangers are $40 and will be customized to include your child's name. Want a door hanger but don't have a student in any of these sports? Don't worry! We will have some awesome LHS door hangers available at our concession stand this fall. All proceeds will help with start-up costs for this year's concession stand. You can access the order form below or e-mail Mr. Jones at [email protected] for more information. Order forms will be due on July 7th so we can make sure you have your door hangers ready to go for football season!

Congratulations to our 2023 Co-Field Commanders, Lauren Mason and Mason White!

It was a real treat having the Austin Peay State University GO Band on campus today. They played some awesome music and shared all the opportunities to make music in college with our band students. Thanks Mr. Schnettler and the APSU students for coming to visit us today!

Soaps are ready to be picked up! They will be going out on Monday. I will be at the band room until 4 pm if any students want to come pick up their order today.

Come out and hear the LHS Concert Band, Jazz Band, and Percussion Ensemble as we give our final concert of the year! We will be playing classic rock hits from great artists including:

- The Beatles
- Queen
- Blue Oyster Cult
- War
- Santana
- Guns N Roses
- Tower of Power
- Bill Withers
- Journey

This AWESOME concert will be on May 9th, 2023 at 6:30 pm in the LHS auditorium. Admission is free and there will be an auction to help support the LHS Band's upcoming marching band season. Bring the family and rock out with us!

COME JOIN THE BAND! The LHS Colorguard is open to any student that will be attending Lexington High School next year. We will have clinics on April 20 and 27, and May 4 and 11 with auditions on May 18. NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED. As long as you have a great attitude and a willingness to learn, we will show you everything you will need to know. Come out to the Band Room on April 20th to start an awesome journey with us! If you have any questions, please e-mail Mr. Jones at [email protected].

Congratulations to the Lexington High School Concert Band for their performance today at Concert Festival at UT Martin. The band received a SUPERIOR rating for their prepared music and an EXCELLENT rating for sight reading. Super proud of these kids and their hard work pushing right up to spring break!

Super proud of these LHS Band members who participated in the All-West Regional Honor Band this weekend. The bands performed today at the Cannon Performing Arts Center and did absolutely fantastic. We got together with family and our friends at Scotts Hill to get some pictures, and Mr. Jones was happy to see his former high school band director, Eric Scott, who was conducting one of the middle school bands this weekend. This is what your support goes to help our kids be able to do. Thank you to all the parents, family, friends, and community members who support and love our band!

We are enjoying ourselves at UTM Honor Band. Getting ready to watch the UTM Music Showcase Concert. Congrats to our LHS Band kids on their placements in ensembles. They’ve been rehearsing since 7 pm yesterday to put on an amazing concert tomorrow starting at 2 pm at UTM.

Wind Ensemble
Emma Hopper - 4th chair Clarinet 3
Jay Barbrey - 2nd chair Tuba
Keenan Powers - 5th chair Percussion
Cannon Tolley - 6th chair Percussion

Symphonic Band
Hannah Roberts - 4th chair Clarinet 3
Zane Johns - 3rd chair Tenor Saxophone
Cody James - 8th chair Percussion

Concert Band
Brayden Smith - 1st chair Flute 1
Lauren Mason - 3rd chair Clarinet 3
Maddox Diffee - 1st chair Horn 1

Congratulations to all of the LHS Students who auditioned for the 2023 All-West Regional Honor Band yesterday! Students from all around West Tennessee gather and audition for a spot in one of these bands. Being selected for All-West is a great honor and provides students with a wonderful opportunity to create music as well as increase their eligibility for scholarship money for college. Four students from Lexington High School were selected to participate in this amazing opportunity. These students will travel to Memphis from Feb. 9-11 to rehearse and perform in a concert at the Convention Center downtown with other amazing students from many different schools.

9th-10th Blue Band
Lauren Mason - Bass Clarinet (4th Chair)

9th - 10th Red Band
Maddox Diffee - French Horn (7th chair)
Matt Hall - Trombone (6th Chair)
Brayden Smith - Flute (6th Chair)

Congratulations LHS Band on your excellent performance tonight at Jackson Christian School.

Class 5A
Band -1st place
Percussion - 1st place
Color guard - 2nd place

Parents, if you have any pictures please share them in the comments!

Super proud of our band’s performance this weekend at the Gibson County Marching Invitational

Class AA-1
1st Place Band
1st Place Percussion
1st Place Drum Major
3rd Place Colorguard

On to the West Tennessee Small Band Championship this Saturday at Jackson Christian School!

Get your fall break started off the right way by coming out to support the LHS Band as we compete at the Huntingdon Marching Invitational! The first band starts at 9 am and we will take the field at 10:20 at Paul Ward Stadium at Huntingdon High School.

Super proud of these kids and their performance at their first competition this year. Yesterday we traveled to Union City to compete in the WTSBOA Marching Festival and the Union City Invitational. Two contests in one day!

WTSBOA Ratings
Band - II (Excellent)
Guard - II (Excellent)
Percussion - I (Superior)
Drum Major - I (Superior)

Union City Invitational
Band - 2nd in class
Guard - 1st in class
Percussion - 1st in class
Drum Major - 1st in class

Coming out of the gates strong this season and it's only going to go up from here!

LHS Band and Guard Alumni and family members:

Dust off your instruments and do your stretches! You are invited to come and perform with the band during our Homecoming game this Friday at LHS. If you are interested in attending, please let us know either on this post or e-mailing Mr. Jones at [email protected] so we have enough music copied off. Can’t wait to have an awesome homecoming with you all!

Another band camp has come and gone! We ended our camp with a small performance for families and a trip to Murfreesboro to watch The DCI show. Even with over an hour in rain delays, the show was a lot of fun and we got to see some amazing groups perform. Can’t wait to start school back up this week and after school rehearsals start back on Thursday. Really excited to see how our show starts to shape up!

Unfortunately my camera cut some people out even thought it showed them when I took the picture. Here is the first look at our new uniforms and new drum wraps! What a good looking group!

What do we do when the heat index is supposed to be too high? We start band camp an hour earlier to beat the heat!

I want to thank everyone that came out to make our first ever car show a success. We had over 40 entries (WAY more than we were expecting) as well as our judges, vendors, band parents, and students for their work today. With your help we raised over $1400 for our band program and we hope to see you all out at next year’s event (June 10, 2023)

Parents, reminder that there will be a meeting tomorrow night at the LHS Band Room at 6:30 to go over details for next year’s marching season. Please attend if at all possible!

ATTN Parents of students who will be involved with the LHS Marching Band next year, we will have an informative meeting on Monday, May 16th at 6:30 pm in the Band Room. This meeting will answer all questions about the marching calendar, give new parents a chance to get involved with our boosters, and provide information about Band Camp. All 8th grade parents and new member parents are strongly encouraged to attend. If you are not able to, please let Mr. Jones know and he will get you the material covered during the meeting.

Here are some photos from our concert on Tuesday alongside the Henderson County middle school band programs. It’s great to see our stage FULL of musicians and such a good crowd turnout too. Congratulations everyone on a great concert. If you have pictures or videos to share, please add them to the comments!

Congratulations to the following students for being selected for the 2022 Lexington High School Color Guard. Can't wait to get the 2022 Marching Season started!

Color Guard:
Kylee Arnold
Skylyn Bynum
Emma Casselberry
James Keymon
Rosalyn Robertson
Kaleigh Watson

Managers:
Cassy Darrenberger
Alyssa Millinder

Absolutely fantastic performance by the LHS Concert Band today at Concert Festival at UT Martin today. The last time we were able to attend concert festival was the week that everything shut down due to COVID back in 2020. These students have worked very hard on this music since January and earned a SUPERIOR rating in both prepared music and sight reading. This is the highest rating that can be achieved.

I would like to thank all of our students for their hard work and professionalism as well as all of our parents who encourage and support our band as we continue to do great things.

Congratulations to the LHS Marching Band for being selected as this year's "Marching Band of the Year". These students worked incredibly hard this year and have gotten so much recognition, not just within our community, but within the entire region. Also congratulations to the LHS Beta Show Choir for winning "Choir of the Year."

Join us next Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the LHS auditorium as we present our joint concert with the Scotts Hill High School Band in preparation for our upcoming Concert Festival performance!

Congratulations to our LHS students that are participating in UTM Honor Band on their chair placements. These students will spend the next two days making music with other students from around West Tennessee and finishing with a concert on Saturday!

Ryan Bishop -3rd chair Symphonic Band, Tenor Sax
Dylan Jordan -1st chair Symphonic Band, Alto Sax
Brayden Smith -2nd chair Concert Band, Flute
Cannon Tolley -6th chair Concert Band, Percussion.

Come on out tonight to get in the holiday spirit. The LHS Marching Band will be performing in the Lexington Christmas Parade starting at 7:00 pm.

Also tomorrow, 12/14, at 6:30 pm, the LHS Band and Westover, Pin Oak, and the brand new Bargerton bands will be presenting their Christmas concert at the LMS auditorium.

Please bring cases of bottled water and any kind of food that doesn't require preparation (granola bars, crackers, chips, beef jerky, etc) to distribute to our neighbors in Decatur County.

If you can't make it to the concert, you can bring by any donations on Wednesday to the high school band room.

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Here is the link to purchase pictures from State.

Obion County Band State Championship Photos by ISO Photo XP Tennessee Division 2 State Marching Band Championship Photos by ISO Photo XP on November 6th, 2021.

The Lexington High School Marching Band has again been nominated for Marching Band of the Year. This group has worked tremendously hard this year, and this award is strictly based off of popular vote. Please vote and share to help show these students how much they mean to us!

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Celebrate Tennessee Voting ends Dec 15, 2021 Awards Event: Feb, 2022

Well, we can finally take a bow after an incredibly successful marching band season. We gave our last performance this morning at the Division II State Championship. The band played and marched their hearts out and we received 13th place overall. We had a few out today due to illness and injury and for us to still achieve at this level, speaks to their hard work. The most important thing to me is the growth that I've seen in these kids, even just in the past two weeks. The fire is lit and it will only continue to grow from here.
This picture is from our performance last night because we were so focused on our performance, so if you took pictures today at State, please share them here and let's celebrate all of their achievements.

This Friday, November 5th at 5 pm, the Lexington High School Marching Band will give their last community performance of their 2021 show "The Arena" at Tiger Stadium at LHS for anyone who is unable to attend the Division II State Marching Band Championship on Saturday. This is a free event and open to the public, so bring your family, friends and anyone else who wants to support these kids as they get ready to give their final performance at State. Our students have worked tremendously hard and the directors, staff, and school are so proud of them and their accomplishments. So make plans to be there and make a ton of noise!

We will also have shirts available for sale including Arena show shirts, Lexington baseball-style shirts from last year's fundraiser, and L-Band shirts.

If you are interested in going to the State competition, it will be held at Stewarts Creek High School in Smyrna, TN. Admission to the event is $20 for the whole day (prelims and finals). Children 5 and under get in free. The band will perform at 10:46 am.