The Gann band Christmas program

A couple of weeks ago we had a Christmas program for the band that the boys play in. Jeffrey was so excited to get to play in his very first concert, especially after having to sit in the audience at band concerts for years now. As usual, moms got to play as well since there are no other clarinets and the moms who participated all played the clarinet in school.

I got to sit next to a very handsome fellow! :-)

Jonathan, Jeffrey and some other members of the band.

Here's the program...

Jonathan played "Feliz Navidad" as a solo, Jeffrey played "Up on the housetop", and Jeremy played "Hark the Hearld Angels Sing" in a jazzed up version....and if I knew how to load things from my video camera to my computer you could actually hear them. They did well and I think one of the cutest things was watching Jeffrey's eyebrows while he was playing. He was concentrating so hard and was making crazy shapes with his eyebrows. I worked hard to keep from laughing! But it sounded great!

Here's most of the band. Jeffrey was missing from this one.

There's Jeffrey....

We were again so thankful for the band this semester. We're so sad because the Gann family is moving to Colorado Springs in January (life in the Air Force, you know)! One of the other clarinet-playing moms and I (mostly the OTHER mom, I hope!!) are going to take over the band for the spring semester and then we'll see what kinds of things open up for next year. We love that the boys are playing instruments and don't want their developing skills and talents just fall by the wayside! Great job guys!