End of the year Band

The Harlan Community High School Band, directed my Mr. Craig Crilly, has ended their year by playing at sunday’s graduation ceremony. Playing from one to one thirty in the afrernoon the band provided an half hours worth of entertainment during the graduation. Having officialy played their last time together for the year they now look [...]

The Jazz Dance

Last Sat. a great ( three bands of a hand-picked few) showed off their skills as they capped the Jazz season off. The first that played was the Harlan Jazz One. They played their contest set and, well, “made the fire alarm ring because they were so hot”. Next was the Harlan Jazz Ensemble.  They played [...]

Trumpets Gone Wild

This is an exclusive interview with Mason and Gabe regarding the 2006-2007 Jazz year for the trumpets.  It features footage of the trumpets and the interview.  It discusses their experiences and success.  This is not to be confused with the coverage of the Iowa Jazz Championships.  This blog was done by [...]

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All That Jazz

ReNee Reising and Ben Pitkin report on IJC, with an exclusive interview with Mr. Britt, the director on Harlan Jazz. Harlan recieved third place at competition. Watch the video for more info and some snippets of their performance. PS- It was April 3rd, not March 3rd.

Jazzing it up

 
 The Harlan Community High School Jazz Band strikes again in Tuesday’s Jazz competition in Norfolk, Nebraska. After a long three hour trip form Harlan to Norfolk, both the Jazz one and two bands preformed at the North Eastern Community College, The Jazz two at 11:45 and the Jazz one at 12:30. Shortly after the Jazz [...]

HCHS Pep Band’s Final Performance

On Thursday, March 15, the Harlan Pep band played their final performance. Allison interviewed a pep band regular and it also shows many highlights from their most recent performance. Although many people don’t realize it, a Harlan sports game just wouldn’t have the excitement and energy without the pep band and, hopefully, you can come and enjoy that [...]

“The Undefeated Season”

This year the HCMS Jazz band did the unthinkable. They won every contest that they entered. There were 7 contests. They played four songs;  1)Groove Blues, 2)A Warm Fuzy, 3)Blue Flame, 4)Bye-Bye Blackbird. They were directed by Steve Britt. The solos for the first song are Nate Mages (8th grade Lead Trumpt), Nick Hadfield (8th grade Lead Trombone), [...]

Simpson Jazz Band

Yesterday,( March 6) the Simpson Jazz band held a concert at our school. They played 5 tunes all of which were very good. The director said that they wern’t the most popular or well know part of Simpson collage. There were many soloists. Mainly of which was there outstanding two tenors and there lead alto [...]

5-8 Vocal Concert

I had the privilage to sit and listen to the 5-8 vocal concert and man oh man was it a good one.  The 5th grade started the concert off with the song ”In Praise of Music”  by Jerry Estes.  They continued and sang 4 more songs ending with “Consider Yourself” which is a song from the musical [...]

Vocal Comes out of the Closet

Over the years, our high school choir has quietly filled its trophy cases while the spotlight shines on Harlan’s athletics. But in the video below, we reveal the not-so-secret-but-often-overlooked vocal department of HCHS.
Mary and Chelsey (6th hour)

HCHS Band Concert

After Tuesday night’s concert, we had a chance to get an exclusive interview with Mr. Crilly along with some highlights of the concert.
-Victoria & Allison (6th)

Jazz Festival

The High School Jazz 1 and 2 along with the Middle school Jazz band were schedualed to preform on Saturday afternoon in Woodward, Iowa. Due to weather conditions, however, Harlan was unable to attend, results have not yet been announced.