Culver Schools Band Department

09/29/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Indiana Bandmasters Association All-Region Honor Band members from Culver Schools!

09/25/2026

It’s homecoming! Perfect weather for uniforms and the school song.

09/18/2026

09/15/2026

Yesterday marked the 212th anniversary of the day Francis Scott Key wrote a poem called "The Star-Spangled Banner". Our older students play this song regularly at sporting event and in class (practicing). Did you know that Key did not write the music for the song we know today as The Star-Spangled Banner? He wrote the words, but the music came from a song called "To Anacreon in Heaven" and was written by a man named John Stafford Smith. The song we know today became the official national anthem on March 3, 1931, some 117 years after Key wrote the poem.

09/11/2026

On September 11, 2001, at the end of first period where I was teaching at Columbia Middle School in Logansport, I sat down at the computer to check email for the daily announcements. The secretary included a note that said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. 2nd period started, which was a class of 6th grade percussion students. There were 9 of them. We had been playing for about 15 minutes when an announcement came over the intercom that we needed to turn on our televisions. We stopped class, wheeled out the tv on the rolling cart, and I plugged in the coax cable to the wall. We then proceeded to watch the most historic event in their lifetime and in mine. We watched the plane hit the second tower and first tower fall. For the rest of the day, everyone watched tv news as we went from period to period. I know I’ll never forget those 9 kids or how that day unfolded. After school, the teachers gathered for a staff meeting where we simply prayed and talked about how to proceed for the rest of the week. One thing I’ll never forget was watching the Star-Spangled Banner being played at Buckingham Palace and the American tourists that were basically trapped in England because of the grounding of all aircraft in the US.

This broke centuries of English Tradition to play our National Anth...

09/09/2026

For any 7-12 grader, the deadline is this week

09/07/2026

The band sounded absolutely fantastic today at the Blueberry Festival Parade! Early start and a hot sun but the weather was really nice in the morning. Congrats to everyone!

09/05/2026

Great job band at a very hot Monterey Days Festival Parade tonight. Next stop- Blueberry!

08/25/2026

The music world lost a legend today. Dolly was so much more than a performer. Her songwriting skills were second to none. Listen to some Dolly Parton today.

05/09/2026

Today is the day! 10am-5pm in the middle school gym. Let everyone know!