My wife and I went over to the local high school (Glencoe) last night for a demonstration performance by the drum line. A son of a friend was performing.
This is a competitive team, much like the dance team, and like the dance team, the competitions are long, crowded and a bit of drive. So these teams put on a demonstration so the parents and friends and can see what they are up to without having to sacrifice an entire Saturday.
Last night they had demonstrations by the drum line, a trio of middle school flag dancers, and the high school color guard.
There were about 20 people on the drum line team, about half on the drum line itself, the others in a supporting band. They are wearing face paint and the floor is covered with a camouflage pattern sheet. There were 4 girls with wild, wild hair (cave-women hair?) on the xylophones. It was quite a show.
The color guard team was all girls, very similar to the dance team, but smaller, about the same number of people as the drum line. They worked with (prop) guns, swords and flags, kind of like cheerleaders. Tossing twirling guns in the air and catching them in unison. Some dancing and quite a bit of flag waving.
The whole thing was over in half an hour. Much better than the 12 hour expeditions to the dance competitions.
Update January 2017 replaced missing picture.
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