Lancer Music Notes

Londonderry High School senior Tim Leonard showed his stuff on Fifth Avenue with the rest of the Londonderry High School Marching Band and Color Guard today as the grand marshal escort in the 248th New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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From Londonderry Hometown Online News;
Arriving in Danbury Connecticut at noon and departed for the hotel at 12:40pm. Arrival at the hotel is expected moments from now at 2:15pm.

According to Superintendent Nate Greenberg on a midday phone call, “All is well no unusual events occurred, no snow, no broken down buses and no accidents.” The superintendent [...]

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WASHINGTON — Finally, after the sun set on the nation’s capital, the 300-member Londonderry Lancers Marching Band passed the presidential viewing stand for President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Watch: Londonderry Lancers March In Inaugural Parade
For a group that has played in China, in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York, this was a big thrill.”It was [...]

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LONDONDERRY – Londonderry High School’s Marching Lancers will play for President Barack Obama at approximately 5 p.m. today, Londonderry Music Director Andy Soucy estimates.
Not even problems with two of their buses could stop them.
The Lancers have drawn the 15th slot in the fifth of five divisions marching in the inaugural parade, Soucy said, a few [...]

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The Londonderry High School Marching Lancer Band and Color Guard march in the inaugural parade of President Barack …
For the WMUR video click HERE.

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LONDONDERRY, N.H. — A marching band from Londonderry, N.H. represented their hometown in the inaugural parade Tuesday.
Londonderry High School’s band did not have much time to prepare for their debut in Washington, but…
Click HERE for the WHDH News 7 Coverage.

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(NECN: Washington, DC) – New England bands got the thrill of a lifetime today, as they took part in the Inaugural Parade. They didn’t get long, but they all made an impression. Here, in order, are:
Sanford High School, Sanford, Maine
Brattleboro Union High School, Brattleboro, Vermont
Trumbull High School, Trumbull, Connecticut
East Greenwich High School, East Greenwich, RI
Members [...]

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LONDONDERRY, N.H. — The Londonderry High School band ran into problems on the highway on their way to the inauguration.They’re playing in President Elect Barack Obama’s inaugural parade on Tuesday.A few minutes after leaving Londonderry one of their busses broke down on Interstate 93.
Read the rest of the story and vie a video at the [...]

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The following was posted as a comment to the article “A Follower’s perspective, “There’s no place like home”“. I thought that everyone would like to read it as an article. Thanks, Scott, for the news, and CONGRATS to Melissa! — Admin
What do you do for an encore after nine days in China with the LHS [...]

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The Brennan triplets — Wes, Josh and Adam — are still catching up on their sleep as their mother, Deb catches up on the laundry and more than a week’s worth of mail.
The family is home from their adventure with the Lancers Marching Band in Beijing with memories they will often share around the dinner [...]

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The flight back…
We were given a wake up call at 5AM for some strange reason although I believe that some folks had to be out earlier than we did and the hotel just called everyone rather than targeting them directly. I was already up because I heard my phone ringing early (about 4AM) and didn’t [...]

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After more than a day on the road the last group of Londonderry Lancers rolled into the high school parking lot under police and fire escort. Arriving in waves the first bus came in the dark of night at 11:15 this group, lucky enough to be on a direct flight from China to the US [...]

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At the end of every checklist, when the Lancers Marching Band heads off for a performance trip, is the item, “And you had a good time.”
Well, this just took on a whole new meaning as the band and color guard can now add surviving a flash flood in Chengde, China, to their “good times.”
The band [...]

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A flash flood dampened dinner plans for the Londonderry High School Marching Lancers on the fifth day of the band’s week-long odyssey in China, though the only casualties reported by chaperones were a few soggy Big Macs.
The Lancers were in Chengde, a city of about 500,000 people, when the flood hit. Following heavy rainstorms, students [...]

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The Londonderry High School band may have a new slogan to print on their T-shirts: We survived the Chengde flash flood.
Members of the Lancers marching band left for China last week to perform in a pre-Olympic cultural festival. Yesterday, they topped their emotional performance Monday atop the Great Wall of China with a dramatic adventure [...]

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As I was re-reading Mary Wing Soars piece, I noticed that she said three bands will be playing at the field show from 9:00 to 11:00 am China time PM American time. She said that they had met a group from Arizona. I searched the web and found this video but could not find any [...]

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