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Regional Band Festival Finds the Beat

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Bands throughout Southern West Virginia were working making their talents heard at the WVSSAC Regional Band Festival.

More than 30 bands from middle and high school throughout all Raleigh, Summers, Greenbrier, Nicholas, and Wyoming counties attending the two day festival at Woodrow Wilson High School's auditorium.

All the bands were critiqued by three panel judges. The judges were retired director of bands at Marshall University Ken Large, Professor of Music and Assistant Director of Bands at Marshall University Ben Miller, and Retired Band Director at Cabell Midland High School Rhonda Smalley.

Bill Bailey is the festival director and he said the bands don't compete against one another, but actually they compete with themselves. Each band is given a ranking the scale of the ratings goes from supreme, excellent, good and fair.

Bailey says the judges listen for tone, technique and overall quality to make the determinations of ratings.

Richwood High School from Nicholas County was performing on Wednesday at noon for their rating. The single A school with AAA band performed "Trails of Glory" and "Gleneagle."

Richwood High School is under the director of Greg James. Richwood High School's band will be performing on Saturday, April 28th at Walt Disney World's premier parade.