Iowa All State Band Festival

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Sydney Sears 
Staff Reporter 
Students will be preforming in front of
the best judges, and hope to receive a
good review. Photo credit Sydney Sears. 
Several band students of Southeast Polk will be attending the Iowa All State Band Festival at Iowa State University tomorrow the 19th and Friday.
The Iowa All State Band Festival is an opportunity for all band kids, though to get in, students must audition a week or so before hand to get in. Once they make it through auditions, they perform a piece they practice on for nearly months and play for the handful of judges in front of them. One of students that made it for the Southeast Polk side of the band is freshman Katy Meunier.
“I practiced almost every day, for an hour at least, or I at least tried to in my free time,” Meunier said. She prepped with her piece as soon as she got it, and played her French horn after school.
“I was very, very nervous,” Meunier said about the auditions, “There was one judge there and a student I think. I was pretty intimidated.”
She went on to say that she found that her piece of music she had to play wasn’t that difficult; that it was more of a matter of nerves or not. Playing in front of judges can be pretty scary.
Meunier believes she’s ready to play tomorrow and Friday for the final judges during the festival and she looks forward to being able to compete.

Other All State students will be leaving tomorrow during 8th period and will also be gone all day Friday.

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