There are 2 article(s) tagged marching band:

• January 2021

  • Calkins: A graveside concert for the leader of the band

    Joe Sills — a legendary high school band director throughout West Tennessee — died of COVID-19. His former students are gathering to play a graveside concert in his honor Saturday. One of them will be playing Sills’ own silver trumpet. 

    By Geoff Calkins January 23, 2021

• September 2020

  • Calkins: Yes, the Memphis band will be playing at Saturday’s game — right through their masks

    How can the Mighty Sound of the South be heard during a pandemic? With creativity, determination and spit containers.

    By Geoff Calkins September 02, 2020