Pine Grove Area Cardinal Marching Band celebrates Disney

The Pine Grove Area Marching Band gathers for a group photo.

The Pine Grove Area High School Cardinal Marching Band is ready to embark on another great season.

As the band prepares for its spring trip to Orlando, Florida, to parade in the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World, it invites fans on a Fantasmic Journey through the Wonderful World of Disney.

Join the band as they Remember the Magic of Sorcerer Mikey, explore the wonders and beauty of the pride lands, make a wish and peek inside a genie’s bottle, and float through the United Nations on a boat ride around the world.

Songs include: Fantasmic, The Land/Circle of Life, Friend Like Me and It’s a Small World.

The band is under the field direction of Drum Majors Kaitlyn Warg, Riley Shultz and Rebecca Shultz.

Other band officers include:

*President: Shane Hall

*Vice President: Alex Dubbs

*Secretary: Allison Kelley

*Treasurer: Kaitlynn Warg

*Historian/Social Media: Riley Shultz

*Librarians: Eve Kurtz, Alexa Brown and Jackson Ludwig

*8th Grade Liaison: Rebecca Shultz

*Social Coordinators Alysa Moyer and Katie DeRemer

*Ken Gibson — Director 28th season as director

*Lizann White — Band front instructor

*Tiffany Menninger — assistant

*Dawn Christensen — assistant

The band has 126 members in grades 8-12, including 100 instrumentalists, 17 bandfront, three drum majors and six managers.

Band director Gibson says:

“Our program lives by the motto: ‘Attitude is everything’ and every year we try to promote a positive, fun-filled experience for our students. The goal is to promote music in an experience that will stay with them for life. We want to have fun, while entertaining the audience. I believe Marching Band is just an extension of the stage, and the audience should be entertained by what we are presenting. If they are not enjoying our performance, then I am sure the kids are not enjoying performing.

“We start every show with this announcement:

“Now we proudly present The “Stylin’, profilin’, crazy dancin’, sassy, flashy, but always classy, often imitated, but never duplicated, marching with attitude, playing with pride, the groove in the grove, THE Pine Grove Area High School Cardinal Marching Band!” Because you never know the crazy antics this band has in store for the crowd …”