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Our Pep Band is being run very differently this year. All band students are required to participate in Pep Band at home football and (some) basketball games. The first football game will be on Saturday, September 14th. Band students are allowed into the game for free, and should arrive at noon. It should be over … Read more

From the Directors:   Welcome to another year of musical excellence and community feeling in Rio Band. The directors are building the band email lists and have already sent some information to band families. The list is a work in progress, so please respond with any additions or modifications, or if you have not recieved an … Read more

The Rio Band’s Ellington Contingent is about to perform in Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center!

The Rio Band has hit the (no so) mean streets of New York…Here they are at The Louis Armstrong House where the jazz great lived from 1943 to 1971 and routed for the Mets….

Our PM and FM Jazz Ensembles, as well as two combos performed at the Santa Cruz Jazz Festival on Saturday. All the groups played beautifully, and represented Rio with class. PM was selected by the judges for a command performance on Saturday night. Individual awards were garnered by- Jacob Swedlow (solo awards in PM and … Read more