the band i am they is from tulsa, oklahoma.
the band i am they is from tulsa, oklahoma.
where is the band i am they from?
tulsa, oklahoma
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pchs is home to the "biggest little band in the land", the paden city wildcat band. the first director of the wildcats was mr. robert "bob" thomas who was actually "shared" between the bands of magnolia and paden city from 1951-1959. since most of paden city's games were played on saturday afternoon, this did not cause a conflict with mr. thomas' direction of both bands and on the occasion where both schools played at the same time, a teacher from pchs would supervise the pchs band and mr. thomas would go with the mhs band. in 1959, paden city hired its first full-time director, mr. r.e. hood. while under the direction of ross "ed" hood, paden city (a wv class 'a' school) was awarded a wv state championship title for stage/jazz band in 1973 and for a second time in 1978, competing against bands from schools representing class aaa, aa, and a. under the direction of ed hood, the paden city marching, concert, pep and stage bands were the considered by many to be the best in the state, as they returned many times to paden city from competitions with multiple awards, including grand champion during marching season in his era. the band captured multiple grand champions at several festivals including the marietta (oh) band festival and sistersville oil and gas festival. after ed hood retired in 1982 to direct a local middle school band, the tradition continued under the direction of the late john nail. the paden city band captured regional championships in the marching bands of america, placed 7th in the united states in 1985 at the indiana hoosier dome after placing first at the mba (boa) pittsburgh regional championships in penn hills, pa. john nail also directed the band in an unheard of "undefeated" 1982 season, as the paden city band never received anything but first-place trophies that year. following the tragic death of john nail, the paden city band was then directed by douglas carter, followed by debra pollock price, and then byron w. filben. the wildcat band also placed 10th at the boa eastern regionals in 1998 under the direction of byron filben. after byron filben left at the end of the 1999-2000 school year, the band was then directed for two years by malissa a. buckovenski, before steven w. jones took leadership of the band. pchs was under the direction of steven jones from 2002-2014, and during that era the paden city band has nearly doubled in size under his leadership and continued to place at competitions and festivals in west virginia and ohio and received 'superior' and 'excellent' ratings at state adjudication festivals. in september 2014, steven jones left pchs to be the director of a middle school program in a neighboring school district and former director debra price returned to direct the wildcats once again. price, in her first year back lead the band at several competitions where they placed in every category, notably receiving runner-up state champion in class 1a in 2014 and 2015, and state champion in class 1a in 2017 and 2018 at the state marching band festival (wv marching band invitational) in the capital city of charleston, wv. in 2018 the band was also the blue division grand champion at the wv state marching band invitational, division i grand champion at parkersburg south, and runner-up grand champion at ripley viking festival for the second year in a row. the concert band over the past few years has received several superior ratings at the state regional adjudication festival and the marching band continues to place at competitions in the state of west virginia for high honors in marching and high honors in music, including the sistersville / tyler consolidated high oil and gas festival, roane county high school wv black walnut festival, sissonville high school invitational band festival, and the ripley high school viking festival, parkersburg high school 'big red' band competition, and since the festival's inception in 2013 has participated in the west virginia invitational band festival in charleston- which is the "state championship" band festival. in the area of music, paden city high school offers to students: marching band, concert band, jazz/stage band, percussion ensemble, basketball pep band, woodwind and brass ensembles, and chorus.
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