Monday, September 17, 2007

First Competition



The Crockett County Marching Cavaliers had their first competition Saturday, September 15 at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Though a trophy did not come back to Crockett County with us, the band did a great job. They have been working hard and it will pay off for them. We will be competing Saturday, September 22 at Liberty Magnet School. The next weekend, the 29th, we will be hosting the First Annual Crockett County Marching Invitational. Please come and support our band each time they take the field.

(Additional pics added below)

UPDATE: We will not be competing at Liberty on September 22 due to illnesses among our band group.

See you on the 29th!!!

Monday, September 3, 2007

Our Band



The Quidam may have stepped out of a surrealist painting or been conjured up out of Zoe's imagination. He is anonymous-he is everyone, and, at the same time, he is no one.




Crockett County Marching Cavaliers
Directors: Keith Baumgardner & Leah Foust

Our field show this year is Cirque du Soleil's Quidam (pronounced "key-DAHM").

The show is imagined by a young girl, named Zoe, a sad and forlorn girl who is alienated and ignored by her parents. She dreams up the whimsical world of Quidam in an attempt to escape her sadness.

The title refers to the feature character, best described as a giant Headless Horseman, carrying an umbrella and a bowler hat. Quidam is said to be the embodiment of both everyone and no one at the same time; a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past; one who cries out, sings and dreams within us all. It could be anyone, anybody, someone coming, going, living in our anonymous society.

According to Cirque's literature: Quidam highlights our frailties and our anguish in the face of the new millennium that lies before us. It also underlines differences, conveying positive feelings and resentment and confronting our dreams with our nightmares.