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Broomfield Marching Band wraps up season ranked 14th
October 20, 2007

Achieving their highest mark of the year, the Broomfield High School Marching band scored a 63.09 to take 8th place in the band's first State quarterfinals since 2003. While the top six groups from the Friday quarterfinal event advance to meet the top six qualifiers in the Saturday semifinals, the Broomfield band wraps up its season ranked 14th in the state for class 4A, seven places higher than last year's 21st place finish.

Broomfield Marching Band qualifies for State Championships
October 11, 2007

For the first time since 2003, the Broomfield High School Marching Band has qualified for the Colorado State Marching Band Championships, presented by the Colorado Bandmasters Association. Placing 4th at the Northern regional qualifier, the marching band registered a score of 56.6, ranking them 15th in class 4A. The top eighteen 4A bands qualified for the State quarterfinals.

Broomfield Marching Band finishes 10th at New Friendship Cup
September 23, 2007

The Broomfield High School Marching Band qualified for a finals competition for the first time in four years at Saturday's New Friendship Cup. Scoring a 60.75 in prelims, besting last year's high score by nearly eleven points, the ensemble qualified for Finals with an 11th place finish out of the 20-band field.

In the finals contest held later that evening, the ensemble finished in 10th place with a score of 56.65, completing the band's first competition of the 2007 season.

Broomfield Marching Band begins 2007 training camp
August 6, 2007

The Broomfield High School Marching Band will wrap up the ensemble's summer program with its annual training camp this week. The band will rehearse every day this week, culminating with a group trip to Water World on Saturday.

The band plans to reinforce the basics training that they have been working on all summer, as well as to start learning drill and more music for the 2007 competitive show, Incantation.

Drum Corps Nights come to a close
July 27, 2007

After 10 weeks of projector screens, snacks, and the sounds of marching music's best, the weekly Drum Corps Nights will come to a close for the summer next Thursday.

Watching over 60 drum and bugle corps performances, spanning the early 70s to last year, several marching band members and alumni spent their Thursday evenings in the Broomfield band room. While enjoying videos of select performances from past DCI World Championships, the showcase for the world's elite drum and bugle corps, the students received an education on the historical roots and evolution of the activity, as well as examples of performance excellence from the world's best marching musicians.

The final Drum Corps Night will feature five shows of the students' choosing, decided by a vote of the evening's attendees.

Broomfield Marching Band announces 2007 musical selections
June 18 , 2007

The Broomfield High School Marching Band will be playing selections from two Cirque du Soleil productions in their 2007 production, entitled Incantation. The pieces, penned by the popular modern composer Benoit Jutras, will be the perfect musical setting for the band as they begin what promises to be a very exciting season.

Songs selected for the program include Atmadja and Incantation from the touring production Quidam, as well as Distorted from the La Nouba show that resides at Disney World in Orlando. The wind arrangements are by Jay Dawson, and the percussion accompaniment will be written by Dave Marvin.