Drum line, percussion and color guard met one additional time per week, according to Bufis.
Once the school year started, it rehearsed as a full group every Wednesday. The band began rehearsals in August, practicing marching fundamentals and learning the show’s music and drill. “We had a lot of visual and electronic components, which can cause things to go wrong, but everything went very smoothly and really brought the music to a higher level.” “I was really excited with the collection of tunes that we played this year,” percussion section leader Katie Drew said. He said they settled on the theme “2021: The Musical,” featuring “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday” by Boyz II Men, “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey and “One Day More” from Les Miserables. The band’s directors started designing its 2020 halftime show in January, just months before the pandemic caused a nationwide lockdown and the show was scrapped, Bufis said.Īs the directors designed the show for the 2021 season, they wanted to incorporate the band’s experiences throughout the pandemic, according to Bufis. At the competition, the team performed its 2021 show in addition to parading through the festival grounds. The Wildkits traveled more than sixty miles to Marengo for the competition, which was part of the Settlers’ Days festival.
“A lot of people sign up for band for the social aspect or the ensemble aspect, which is really hard when you’re learning in isolation.”īut by the end of this marching band season, the Wildkits won their fourth consecutive grand champion title at the Marengo Settlers’ Days competition. “The pandemic was really hard on music programs across the country,” director of bands Matthew Bufis said. For Evanston Township High School’s Wildkit Marching Band, this year was about rebuilding.īecause COVID-19 reduced the program’s membership, rehearsal time and performance opportunities in 2020, the directors said their primary goal this fall was to get the band back on its feet.
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