Seven different schools will all be on the same page this week.
The same page of sheet music that is.
That’s when several area high school bands will take the field at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Duck Samford Stadium for the ninth annual Band-O-Rama event.
The event began in 2000, after Auburn High School band director Rusty Logan and a number of other high school band directors discussed the idea of an event in which high schools could perform their routines for each other before the football season began.
This year, Auburn, Beulah, Valley, Smiths Station, Eufaula and Opelika high schools and the Auburn University Marching Band will
perform.
It is not a competition.
“This event is kind of like the reward for all the practice these band members have put in over the summer,” said Logan.
The bands will perform in shorts and t-shirts. Logan hopes it is a valuable learning experience for them as they watch how other groups
perform.
“What’s also kind of neat about this event is that many of the current AU Marching Band members have at some point in the past participated in past Band-O-Ramas,” said Logan.
Those who attend the Band-O -Rama will sit on the home side of Duck Samford Stadium as they hear AHS perform a classic rock program that will include music from Alice Cooper (“School’s Out”), James Brown (“I Feel Good”), Blondie (“Call Me”) and Bon Jovi (“Livin’ On a Prayer.”)
The other high schools performing at Band-O-Rama will have themed musical routines.
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