COUNTY LIFE
Bowie’s Winter Guard spinning to championships
By BARBARA GREEN
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Bowie High School’s Winter Guard members are spinning their way through competition season as they work toward qualifying for the championships on March 7.
Assistant Bowie Band Director Melissa Zamzow is in her second year as the full-time director of the Winter Guard which brings dance and flag spins to a new level of competition from the traditional band flag corps.
While color or flag corps generally use flags or sabers, along with costumes and dance to bring new facets to marching band, the winter guard enhances all those facets as a team of performers for a show inside of a gymnasium. Winter guard tells a story set to music, using lots of theatrics, costuming, props, backdrops and of course flags.
A team must have at least five performers and a maximum of 30. This year’s team is nine who have experience spinning range from none to very. While the majority are in band, it is not a requirement.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The Back to School Fair for Bowie Independent School District students will be 9 a.m. on July 20 in the high school cafeteria and gym.
The fair will feature free school supplies, haircuts and eye screening and vendors.
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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