Students Video Contest Open for Voting

4/25/12
For the past few years our drum majors, Mark Adkins and Ben Boudreaux, have entered a video public service announcement on bicycle safety. The contest prize is $1500, and if they win the school also gets $500. They need votes to win so help them out by casting your vote here. You can vote once every day. Spread the word!

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WFR Marching Cougars Band Camp Dates Added to Calendar

4/9/12: Attention Marching Cougars and Marching Cougar Prospectus...band camp will be held at WFRHS from August 6-10 and 13-17. The weekends in between will be off and the Wednesdays within camp will release early (around 5). Band camp is mandatory for all Marching Cougars including incoming freshman. More details will be added soon to the band camp link on the site.

WFR Performs in Finals at AIA Championships

4/1/12: The girls of the WFR Winterguard performed in finals competition at AIA Championships in Raleigh on Saturday afternoon. Their performance of "The One," featuring musical selection "Billy Jean" as performed by David Cook received an enthusiastic reception from the crowd at Dorton Arena. Congrats girls on a nice finish to the indoor season and kudos on the strides made these last few months!

WFR Winterguard Qualifies for Finals at AIA Championships

3/31/12: The WFR Winterguard gave a fantastic performance on Saturday at AIA prelims and has qualified for Finals with a score of 68.7. They will perform again in finals performance on Sunday at 1:13pm @ Dorton Arena on the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. Come out and support our guard!

Spring Band Picnic Scheduled for Saturday, May 12

3/29/12: We will be celebrating the end of the 2011-12 school year with a spring picnic on Saturday, May 12 at Durant Nature Park. We have reserved the pavilion from noon to 4pm and will have a pot luck style lunch, awards, senior acknowledgments, announcement of next years leadership team, followed by the pie throwing and games. Details will follow with what everyone is to bring - and start saving now for a chance to throw a pie at your favorite drum major or band director.

WFR Marching Band Kick-off Meeting Postponed

3/26/12: The Wake Forest-Rolesville Marching Band Kick-off Meeting Scheduled for tomorrow evening has been postponed and will be rescheduled to occur after spring break. This event is for all returning marching band members to get info and give input on plans for next season.

WFR Winterguard places 3rd in S1A @ Green Hope HS Competition!

3/26/12: The Wake Forest-Rolesville High School Winterguard performed at Green Hope's Art in Motion Competition on Saturday gave a much improved performance. They were awarded 3rd place in Scholastic 1-A. Congrats ladies! The group will perform next at AIA Championships on Saturday, April 7 at Dorton Arena in Raleigh, NC.

Congratulations to Outstanding Students and Ensembles!

3/19/12: Kudos to the WFR Wind Ensemble! The group gave a fantastic performance at CDBA Music Performance Assessment - what you may know as band festival - and received a final rating of Superior, the highest designation. Adjudicators on stage and in the sight-reading room gave the ensemble I's across the board. Congrats!

Congratulations to both Michael Richards and Philip Nixon for making both All-District and All-State Bands. These are very competitive ensembles and high honors for these students.

The following students participated in the UNC-Greensboro Honors band: Mark Adkins, Victoria McQuade, Larry Pugh, John Blair, Philip Nixon and Qanyu Phang. Be sure to congratulate them for this honor the next time you see them.

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The Band Boosters of Wake Forest - Rolesville High School is a recognized 501(c)3 organization. Your tax deductable contribution to the band program helps buy and maintain instruments, bring in clinicians thoughout the year and generally helps provide the students of WF-R High School with a high quality music program. Any amount is appreciated. Please consider making a gift to help keep this program goint. Thank you!