On Friday, May 5, Atlantic will be participating in the annual Large Group competition. This year the Atlantic High School was asked by the state association if they were willing to host it and they said yes. Twelve other schools in our district will be coming to compete like, Harlan and Glenwood.

The AHS concert band is performing two pieces, “Flieger Marsch” and “Declaration Overture.” They will perform these two songs before judges at 9:45 p.m. in the gym. The band director Jarrod O’Donnell said, “I think we are pretty well prepared. We get to use this week to prepare only on our 2 main pieces, and so far the concentration and work has been really good.”

Performing before the concert band are the AHS Chamber and Concert choirs. The Chamber choir will be singing two songs, “In Remembrance,” and “The Call of Music.” The Concert choir is singing “Kyrie Eleison,” and “Awaken the Music.” The choir director Jennifer Gaesser said that the choirs, “gave a solid performance on Tuesday so I hoping with a few more tweaks they should give a great performance on Friday.”