The ULM division of music hosted the Division I Junior High School Honor Band this past Friday and Saturday. The event brought together junior high school students from around the Ouachita parish area and allowed them to showcase their band member talents.
Students rehearsed at ULM’s band room and Brown Auditorium all Friday and then again on Saturday morning.
The honor band concert was held in Brown Auditorium on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
This event is a way to showcase some of the facilities that are present on campus. It gives students who may want to attend ULM in the future a look at what life might be like as a music student.
According to Jason Rinehart, assistant director of bands, “It’s not really held on campus to recruit students to come to ULM.”
Still, several ULM students who attended honor band in the past said it factored into their decision when thinking about where they wanted to attend college.
James Hodge, freshman music major from Monroe, said, “It did have an effect on my choice of where to go to college because I was familiar with the facilities that were on campus.”