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The Grove City High School
Marching Band has received over 30 Grand
Champion awards over the last ten years in OMEA competitions. The band
has received superior ratings at the OMEA State Marching Band Contest
every year since the contest's inception in 1980.
Highlights:
- Marched in Tournament of Roses Parade in
Pasadena, California,
in 1990 and again in 2000.
- Named the Grand Champion at Music Fest Orlando
in the Parade
Division Competition in Florida in 1993 and again in 1997.
- In 2002, the band took 5th place in the finals
of Bands Of
America Regional Competition in Louisville, Kentucky as well as
winning Outstanding Musical Performance.
- In 2003 the band was invited to the 42nd Annual
Contest Of
Champions in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and placed 5th in finals.
- Marched in the London New Year's Day Parade,
2005.
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The Symphonic Band has consistently received
superior ratings in Class
AA at both district and state OMEA adjudicated events for over thirty
years (since 1975), as has Concert Band I in Class B, and more recently
Class A, for over twenty years (since 1984). Concert Band II
performs in the Class C level, and earned straight superior ratings at
both district and state adjudicated events in 2005.
Highlights for the Symphonic Band:
- Performed at the 50th Anniversary of the
Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago,
Illinois on December 19, 1996.
- Invited to perform at the Midwest Clinic again in
2002.
- Performed at the1993 and 2001 OMEA State
Convention and was the clinician band for the composer Francis
McBeth at the 1995 OMEA State Convention, as well as for Mark Kelly
in 1989.
- Guest band for the Directors' Clinic at
Miami University with Donald Hunsburger of the Eastman School of
Music and H. Robert Reynolds from the University of Michigan.
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The Jazz Band was the Grand
Champion Jazz Band of the
Fiesta-Val
International Band Contest held in
Toronto, Canada in May 1995 and
again in May 1996 in Williamsburg, Virginia. The band received
Outstanding Jazz Band Awards in 1993, 1994 and 1997 at
Music In the
Parks competitions.
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