What a weekend in Wildwood!!!!

[ricks67]

Car shows and cruises are great but to be in Wildwood when they have the indoor scholastic championships for percussion, color guards, etc is pretty amazing. Everywhere you look groups are practicing, on balconies, decks, parking lots. you name it if there is room to set up they were there. The weather hampered some of the groups it was cold, windy and rain a couple of days. Some percussion groups had popup canopies lined up to practice under in parking lots. there was about 250 different groups there from thursday till sunday. You want to talk about determination you have to watch these kids perform and practice. I was with Whitehall HS percussion and guard and took over 1100 pic's with the new D90. Great camera!!!. The color guard didn't make it past preliminaries but percussion performed thursday 10:40pm and friday morning they were up at 8 and out practicing for almost 12 hours that day, saturday they practiced almost 8 hours and performed at 8:20 that night. Also in that time frame you had to include loading and unloading instruments and setting up. The parents that went along did alot of work too helping with the instruments, cooking, housekeeping, chaperoning the kids. Mr. Roman changed some of the music and coreography asper the judges comments to improve it for the saturday finals. Their performance was better but they couldn't make up the 2 point difference and got second in the World Concert percussion finals. The kids had no reason to hang their heads because they were beat buy an all high school ensemble and Whitehall's percussion consisted of 1 senior, 2 juniors, 1 sophmore, and 8 eight graders six were rookies.
I cut my pics down to about 700. the albums are listed on the left side of the page. Wednesday was a parents show at the high school before they left.
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