The awards keep on coming! WHHS Band is proud to announce the winner of the 2017 Carolina Winter Ensembles Association "Sport of the Arts Award" is Wade Hampton High School Winter Guard!! ​This award celebrates outstanding sportsmanship throughout the season. It is presented to the unit displaying the true spirit of community learning and giving of one's self to make this activity better for all whom engage in it. For all the adversity they have overcome this year, we could

Agenda 1. Spring Events 2. Fundraisers 3. Band Camp 4. Other items 5. Discuss next steps Carleen opened the meeting at 5:35 pm. We discussed the drum set first. Mr. Pace has arranged the purchase of the drum set. They are from Carolina Percussion’s drum corp. who are performing at Dayton, OH. We have two options for receiving the drums: 1. Take them home after their performance in Dayton, OH. We would need to rent a truck and drive them back to Greenville since there is not r

Here are some reminders and information about this week's activities from the Band Boosters and A.J. Pace, Director of Bands. ​Congratulations to the WHHS Concert Band on the SUPERIOR rating at the Concert Performance Assessment! Top scores across the board - first time in school history. So proud!!THIS WEEK'S ACTIVITIES Winter Guard rehearsal schedule Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - 4:15 pm to 6:45 pm Winter Guard - CWEA Color Guard Championships 11:30 Arrive at WHHS 12:0

Thank you to all who helped make the memorial event for John Robb truly a celebration of love - love for a lost friend and love for his family in their unimaginable grief. Thank you to: students and Mr. Pace who put their time and energy in relearning the music and who played it with so much powerful emotion parents who signed up and brought food to sustain everyone during the event, with extras to send home for the family some incredibly hardworking board members who took

Please see this message from the Robb Family, and see below for additional requests. There will be a Memorial service to celebrate John’s life on Sunday, March 12th from 1:00 to 5:00 at Timmons Arena (Furman University). If you love John and would like to share in the celebration of his life and how he impacted others, please join us and bring stories and special memories to share. Memorial will start at 1:00 with music to celebrate his life beginning at 2:00. (WHHS will

Our band family mourns the death of one of our own, John Robb, who was killed in an accident on Friday. Please pray for the Robb family, for the program staff and for all these kids who now have to learn about grief together. Our thoughts are also with Alan Wright and his family as he works through physical and emotional recovery. John was the 2016 WHHS drum major and was one of the WHHS students also involved in the North Greenville Indoor percussion group. Although deva