Prelims

Our preliminary performance for the judges was Tuesday night. I think it went pretty well, but as the drillmaster put it, we're not going to be able to get away with that at Semifinals. We've been struggling to recruit the players for the band, but I think we had the minimum. Since we were the first band to play that day we were at the yard early to get our jersey's and rehearse. We were suppose to start at 7, so naturally the judge came at 8. There was a big crowd of families, tourists, and supporters of the band. It was a lot of fun. After we played we rehearsed some more and worked on the judges comments. We made some solid changes I feel. After wards the band fed us all dinner and my friends and I caught some of the other groups at 11 and midnight. They were good, but didn't impress me all that much.

Here are all the foreigners that have come down to play with Starlift.



Here is team America.



And here is everyone from the NIU steel band with our professor (Starlift's arranger) Liam Teague. We all played together from 2005-2008.