Sixth Annual
Millbrook Pre-Festival Showcase

Morning Clinic Format and Afternoon/Evening Contest
September 18, 2010

The Showcase: Millbrook High School’s Sixth Annual Pre-Festival Showcase is an exhibition and a competition that will provide you with an excellent opportunity to be evaluated by some of the best and proven adjudicators in the state. The showcase will help you have a great season with one of two venues: the exhibition/clinic will allow your school to perform without the pressure of competition early in the season; the contest will allow you to take advantage of competition format in a setting that has proven to be a well run contest. Our goal is to host an event that will provide you with several educational options for your band.

Clinic Format: An evaluator/clinician to speak with students after the performance: The clinic will take place at a location just outside of the gate on a field across from the stadium. Clinicians will critique by caption

• Critique using VBODA State Marching Festival forms: We have adjusted the state form to allow for the clinicians to critique by caption. The state form will give you a better understanding of how judges might evaluate your band at the state marching festival and help you work on changes early in the season. The clinician that works with your band will do all captions with VBODA guidelines.

1. Music Performance – Quality of Sound, Technique, Musicianship
2. Visual Performance – Technique and Ensemble
3. General Effect – Design and Performance

The Competition: The idea of a show early in the season that is competitive should have several benefits to be successful for the host and the schools attending.

• Adjudication: We will use the VBODA State Marching Festival format with points given in areas of concentration. Caption judging is as follows: 2 adjudicators each in Music Performance, Visual Performance and General Effect. Additional areas are Percussion and Guard.
• Awards: Will be given in the following areas:

1. In each class: best in music, marching, percussion, guard, and first/second place over all.
2. There will be an over all champion in the area of Drum Major.
3. Grand Champion award goes to the highest accumulative score for the overall event.
4. Note: In case of a tie, the music score will be the determining factor in the outcome.

• Classification: Will be based on number of wind and percussion students in your program and the number of applicants

Contact Information: Michael Ward, Director of Bands, Millbrook High School
Winchester Virginia (540) 545-2800
Email – wardm@frederick.k12.va.us

JOIN US FOR THE PRE-FESTIVAL SHOWCASE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2010
Entry Deadline Postmark – Monday, September 6, 2010

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