Now Playing Synopsis: Most fans of classic soul and funk don't spend much time listening to high school bands, but mention the Kashmere Stage Band and they'll sit up and take notice. In the 1970s, the jazz band at Houston, Texas' Kashmere High School was one of the best in the nation, and even scored regional hits with their recordings. Comprised of students from one of Houston's roughest neighborhoods, the Kashmere Stage Band was the brainchild of Conrad O. Johnson Sr., the school's band director who replaced the band's staid repertoire with a mix of lively jazz and funk tunes and current R&B favorites, and instilled a powerful work ethic in his students that turned the ensemble into an award winner. Johnson, known to his students as "Prof," transformed an otherwise ordinary band into something ground-breaking, and in the documentary Thunder Soul, filmmaker Mark Landsman offers a telling profile of Johnson and his band, featuring photos and footage of the band in their heyday as well as interviews from a recent reunion in which the Kashmere alumni paid tribute to Prof with their first concert in decades. Thunder Soul received its world premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Cast: Conrad O. Johnson, Sr., Craig Baldwin, Craig Green, Bruce Middleton, Timothy Thompson, Gerald Calhoun, Gwen Walker, Kirbyjon Caldwell, Martha Samson, Gaila Mitchell Movie Details Play Trailer Movie Review

Opens Friday, Sep 23, 2011 Synopsis: Most fans of classic soul and funk don't spend much time listening to high school bands, but mention the Kashmere Stage Band and they'll sit up and take notice. In the 1970s, the jazz band at Houston, Texas' Kashmere High School was one of the best in the nation, and even scored regional hits with their recordings. Comprised of students from one of Houston's roughest neighborhoods, the Kashmere Stage Band was the brainchild of Conrad O. Johnson Sr., the school's band director who replaced the band's staid repertoire with a mix of lively jazz and funk tunes and current R&B favorites, and instilled a powerful work ethic in his students that turned the ensemble into an award winner. Johnson, known to his students as "Prof," transformed an otherwise ordinary band into something ground-breaking, and in the documentary Thunder Soul, filmmaker Mark Landsman offers a telling profile of Johnson and his band, featuring photos and footage of the band in their heyday as well as interviews from a recent reunion in which the Kashmere alumni paid tribute to Prof with their first concert in decades. Thunder Soul received its world premiere at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Movie Details Play Trailer Movie Review

...please forgive me. Thanks again to everyone, including the community of Juneau, and I'll see you out there in the audience as I join the winsome world of retirement land. I'm proud to have been your JDHS Band Director. Ken Guiher

...choir will be featured, along with a selection of solos and ensembles from the Southeast Music Festival in Sitka. Band director Ken Guiher, orchestra director Julia Bastuscheck and choir director Richard Moore will lead the performances. College...

...very few young people in the band." Approximately one-third of the 35 band members are high school students, said band director, sixth-year member and Floyd Dryden Middle School band teacher Scott Black. Black and Juneau-Douglas High School...

...man. I had to search my soul a little bit, but eventually I found it. It was really helpful once we had the full band." Director David Charles Goyette has moved to Juneau and will be the new education director at Perseverance. He's spent the...

...Jazz Festival on February 13-15. Twenty seventh and eighth-grade students, six parent chaperones, and the Jazz Band Director, Scott Black, attended the two-day Sitka High School-sponsored festival. The students attended workshops for...

...been very supportive and helpful with the rehearsal and equipment needs of the band," Bucy said. "Brian Van Kirk, band director at Thunder Mountain, also has been quite generous to let us rehearse in his space and use his equipment. It is a...

...that hooked him for life, he said. ``I was playing in a big brass band in high school in Lubbock. One day the band director passed out this music to ``Ziegfried's Rhine Journey.'' I had heard about this Ziegfried fellow, from reading...

...marching band rehearses at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the Floyd Dryden Middle School band room. Call Ruddy at 789 0047 or band director Scott Black at 790-4453 for more information. Jesse Manibusan in town for free concert Juneau - Singer, songwriter...