Justice 8th Grade Christmas Concert

Justice's last Christmas Concert @ MCS. He's been sick since last Wednesday so we were afraid he wouldn't make it. But miraculously he regained his voice enough in the last day & a half to play the trumpet. He did a great job! We love Mrs. Nelson. Her concerts are always so fun!

Here's the Traditional end to the MCS Christmas Concert- White Christmas with music by Justice's 8th grade band. "May all your Christmases be White!" ❄️

Concert Band Concert

Liberty had her Concert Band Performance tonight. They sounded great! Plus Liberty had quite some snazzy moves while she boogied to the Jazz Band music afterwards. Silly girl!

Liberty the Drummer

This girl is in love. Uncle Louie let her play his drum set. She was so excited! Best Thanksgiving ever!

Lettering in Band

Liberty lettered in Band this year. We are way proud of her!! She did several events with band above & beyond her regular class in order to receive this award. This picture is of the Freshman students that lettered this 2015-16 school year.

Here is some her best Band Buddies! Marz & Ann

Freshman Band Concert

Last band concert as a Freshman. Great job, Liberty!!! Her friend, Ann did a solo on the Piano. She's amazing! They did some really fun songs this time. It's been a fun band year!

Yankee Doodle:

Pirates of the Caribbean:
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Star War (Ann & Liberty finally got off the bells ;):

"POP" Band Concert

Justice had his Band Concert tonight. The theme was "POP" Music. The introductions of each song were like... hilarious, Dude!!! LOL

Mrs. Nelson does a great job with these kids. You did awesome, Justice!!! We're very proud of your talents. (He is in the center on 3rd row back with his flag hat)

Introducing the 7th Grade Head Bangers playing Blitzkrieg Bop 

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Playing HOME by Phillip Phillips:

2016 Vigilante Day Parade

The Vigilante Day Parade, a Helena tradition dating back to 1924, continues today, bringing with it a flood of memories, local history lessons and teamwork between students.
The parade kicks off at noon when dozens of floats, designed and built by students from Helena High and Capital High line up on Helena Avenue before parading down Last Chance Gulch.
The themes of the floats, most of which relate to Helena history, all had to be approved by teachers. Students will be awarded prizes in a number of categories for their floats. Those working on floats were excused from school Thursday to finish up their projects.

Liberty participated in the Vigilante Parade with the HHS Band. It threatened to rain but was a perfect cool day for a parade. Super fun to see her & cheer her on!

We also got to see a few of the floats. Fun (& kind of silly) excuse to skip out on school. Go Helena!

District Band Festival with Sightreading!

Liberty had her District Band Festival this evening. She did a great job! She said they didn't do very well on the 2nd song but it sounded good to me. ;) I was really impressed with their their last song. Can you see those 2 judges seated in the front the band? Well, they presented Mr. Loveridge with sheet music. The freshman had about 2 minutes to look it over and then performed it together for the 1st time. It's a sight-reading judging. They did amazing!!! If I can figure out how to do a small blurb from it on video- I'll get it posted. Way to go, Sis!

7th Grade Winter Concert

Justice's Winter Band Concert was tonight. He is doing so well on the trumpet. We are very proud of him!! Mr.s Nelson is is his band teacher. She is so phenomenal with all the kids and putting together these programs around Christmas!!!

Here's a sample if it isn't to long to load.

HHS Freshman Christmas Concert

Liberty played in the Freshman Band Concert tonight. Her and Ann played the bells. I mean- they rocked the bells!!! Great job, Sis!

Here's a closeup of Liberty in the Percussion section on the bells.

 I could only catch Liberty and her friend Marz afterwards. Proud of you girls!

Let's try a video:

'Ukulele lessons @ Lahaina Cannery Mall

Every Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. the Lahaina Cannery Mall hosts free 'Ukulele lessons. Since we were going to be surfing in Lahaina today, we decided it would be fun to stay the evening and check the lessons out. The Instructor showed up with 15 or so 'ukuleles for people to use along with some local people bought their own. The he have them a lesson. He taught them how to hold it, strum it and some of the chords they could use. He had them play along as he played his and sang them Elvis songs. He was super goofy but everyone had a fun time!

Lahaina Cannery Mall

1221 Honoapiilani Hwy, Lahaina, HI 96761

(808) 661-5304

http://www.lahainacannery.com/

Broadway Spring Band Concert

Liberty & Justice had their final Band Concert for the Year tonight. It was a Broadway themed night.They did a fantastic job!!!

Liberty did a solo on the piano as prelude music before the concert. She chose to play "Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera. She has an amazing talent on the piano! She taught herself the song over the last several weeks. Awesome!

Here's the 6th Grade Band. Justice is on the middle of the back row playing the trumpet.

He also had a speaking part in which his acting skills were exemplary! ;)

Here's Liberty in the 8th Grade Band on the drums.

We had no idea that she was playing piano parts for a couple of the pieces. One talented girl!

Bittersweet that this is their last concert together at Montana City School. They are growing up way too fast!

Make-up 8th Grade Band Concert

Liberty had her 8th grade Make-up Concert for Band tonight. She was a little bummed because they voted to leave out the little acting bit she was going to be a part of and only did a few songs. Mrs. Nelson was sick (and so was Shay & the little girls- the flu is going around here like crazy!) so it was super short. But it was great that they made the time to let the kids show off their hard work. Wish I could have been there, Sis. Dad said you did a great job! 

Percussion Section

One of the songs: 

Winter Concert Fiasco

We attended the Montana City Middle School Winter Concert tonight. Justice & his friend, Bryson have been practicing for weeks for a Trumpet Duet. Justice was super nervous but they did a fabulous job! It was fun that we knew so many people in the concert. They had singing, dancing, piano soloists, trumpets, violin duets, and some pretty funny commentary. It was a pretty impressive night...

...until halfway through- some commotion on the front row quickly turned the night into quite the fiasco!!!! At first, we thought someone's Grandpa had fainted from the heat of so many people in the room. But within a minute or so- we realized this would not be the typical Winter Concert. One of the teachers started doing CPR within minutes of the grandpa hitting the floor. He had a heart-attack was lying dead on the floor. Wowzers! They tried to clear the bleachers and took as many kids as possible out of the room. However- none of us could leave so that the ambulance wouldn't have to fight the traffic of a parking lot full of cars being emptied. They continued CPR, took down the gym door so they could get the stretcher in all while we stood shocked against the back wall. When his heart finally started beating and became somewhat coherent- the ambulance with the EMTs showed up. As soon as they got him up and out of the room, they canceled the rest of the concert for the evening. There was some scared, sad and mad kiddos in the back room. We chatted about how it was probably the best call for the evening. Especially because if it had been someone in our family- we wouldn't have wanted to finish out the concert. Most of them understood but still a little sad about how hard they have worked all year to prepare for tonight. Here's what we missed-

Quite the adventure. The man survived though so that was a blessing for sure. It was probably a blessing in disguise that he was there when it happened. The next day they did discuss that they may do a makeup concert sometime in January. Guess we'll see.

Jazz Band

Liberty has had the opportunity to join her old EVMS friends and participate in the after school Jazz Band Program. (Mondays and Thursdays) She is having a fabulous time! It's tricky to get her there on time and she's not sure they will let her join in the performance but she loves Mr. Pipinich and playing with a "real" band. LOL Plus her friends are so excited to see her. She's in heaven!

Ann usually leaves too early for me to grab a picture

7th Grade Spring Concert

Liberty had her last Band Concert with Mr. Pipinich tonight. Bitter sweet! He has made this year for Liberty. She has really blossomed under his teaching. {especially considering that this is her first time in Band ever!} The did a great job in their concert. Awesome!

5th Grade Spring Concert

Justice's last Band concert for the year. And his last one with Mr. Pipinich. He did a great job!

5th Grade Band Open House

Justice had a Band Open House this morning. It was fun to check out how a Band Class goes for him. He's pretty talented!

Fam Visit: Band Concert

We had our own little Band Concert today at the apartment. The Fam wanted to see Justice play his trumpet. They also wanted to hear Ethan on the piano.  Then the boys joined forces and did a trumpet/piano duet. They even added a bit of drums with it. And I think that Brett even sang it at one point. Pretty awesome! Here's the best video I got of their performance. It's a bummer because it cut off before they did the variation verse. Oh well- they still sounded great!

Band Festival 2014

Liberty was throwing up all day yesterday. Luckily she was done half way through the day and pretty much slept until late this morning. It made it so she had just enough energy to participate in her Band Festival at the Civic Center this afternoon. The rest of the Band had taken the buses there this morning but I dropped her off after lunch. Mr. Pipinich was very helpful and understanding. He let her take some snacks, keep her phone handy and got her a chair to sit on during breaks. She was pretty tired after but she was really glad she got to participate. (and not have to make it up later. LOL)

There were three 7th Grade Bands from the area that played together today. They got to experience "real life" conductors. Which made Liberty appreciate Mr. Pipinich- his love for them, his enthusiasm and his positive attitude. They did a fantastic job!!! They blow me away that they are only in 7th grade. Way to go, Sis!

Liberty LOVES the band. Partly because she loves music and a LOT because she gets to hang out with Ann. Oh, the power of good friends!