May the fourth be with you, Rocky Grove band ends with Star Wars

Thursday night Chris Luxbacher's Rocky Grove junior and senior high bands showed off the tunes they've been working on this winter and spring, including a finale of the Star Wars themes song.

The evening kicked off with the junior high kids performing Steve Hodges Arocknophobia, Michael Story's The Curse of Tutankhamun, Ancient Echoes by Ed Huckerby and Malagueña, arranged by Michael Sweeney.
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The jazz band then took the stage to play another Sweeney arrangement Route 66, John Bery's The Girl for Ipanema and Brick House arranged by Paul Murtha.

The bands then left the auditorium briefly and the senior high band took to the sage for the final six songs.

The senior high players opened with David Shaffer's Freefall followed by a Ted Ricketts arrangement of The Pirates of the Caribbean and David Shaffer's Last Ride of the Pony Express. They also played a version of John Lennon's Imagine.

Then they concluded with an instrumental "May the Fourth be with you" greeting by playing a Star Wars arrangement as an acknowledgement of the concert's date.

Receiving special honors during the evening were senior high instrumentalists Miranda Garden and RaeLynn Montgomery, junior high students Jayden Miller and Ryder Mitchell, and senior Kaylee Knapp, who assisted with the junior high band.