Southmont High School is proud to announce they will be hosting the Central-West Indiana All-Region Honor Band on Nov. 11-12. The band is composed of 102 students from 23 different area schools. The schools include: Battle Ground Middle School, Benton Central High School, Crawfordsville Middle School, Delphi Community High School, East Tipp Middle School, Faith Christian School, Frankfort Middle School, Frankfort High School, Greencastle Middle School, Klondike Middle School, Lafayette Tecumseh Junior High School, McCutcheon High School, North Montgomery Middle and High School, North Putnam Middle and High School, North White, Parke Heritage Middle School, Seeger High School, South Putnam Middle School, Southmont High School, Southwestern Middle School, Wainwright Middle School and Western Boone High School.
Students were selected from more than 200 applicants this year. Wendy Higdon Rice will be the guest conductor for the weekend. She is in frequent demand as an adjudicator, clinician, guest conductor and speaker around the country. She was recognized as the Outstanding Bandmaster in 2020 by Phi Beta Mu, Gamma Chapter. She is also a past recipient of the “Fifty Directors Who Make a Difference” Award from School Band and Orchestra Magazine. Rice is the Director of Bands and Performing Arts Department Chair at Creekside Middle School in Carmel.
Under her direction, the Creekside Wind Symphony was honored to perform at The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in 2013. Her band has also been a featured performer at the Indiana Music Education Association Conference.
Students will rehearse all day Nov. 11, followed by a short rehearsal Nov. 12 and a free and open to the public performance at 4 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Southmont High School auditorium.
Montgomery County is represented this year by 11 students from the three school corporations.
