Veronica’s Plaza Performances

This last weekend, one of our girls, Veronica, hand a band competition at one of the Plazas down town. Like any proud parent, we showed up with the family, and when it as her turn, we hooted and hollered. There were many weird looks from other people in the audience for two reasons, one, no-one else was there supporting our school (we live in a small town), and two, there was a monstrous white man (I prefer tall, dark and handsome) with a loud voice hooting and hollering (yours truly).

Our band, which was significantly under instrumented (we had recorders instead of a brass or winds section), managed to pull out a first place victory. It was a fun performance to watch, and even more exciting to see the under-dressed, under-budgeted, band from way outside the city, pull out a first place victory. Every school seemed to play the same songs; the difference came from the formations. We opted for a simple, quality, everyone-knew-it, formation, which was executed to perfection. Here is a photo of the Santo Tomas band. Veronica is in the front row wearing glasses.