Vandegrift band to mark Pearl Harbor milestone
School dance teams also will perform for 75th anniversary.
More than 400 members of the Vandegrift High School band and dance teams will spend their spring break in Hawaii this year on one of the largest school trips the Leander school district has ever had.
The Vipers have been invited to perform March 10 in Honolulu as part of an ongoing commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. The trip will be the largest ever for the school.
Scheduled to go are 377 students from the Viper Band and Vision Dance Company, choir and Legacies Dance Team, with about 30 staff members and chaperones. Students had to cover the $2,400 cost per person on their own, but they could make multiple payments over time.
“We’ve been wanting to do something as a fine arts unit together for a while,” said the band’s director, Mike Howard. “The Pearl Harbor performance is the perfect opportunity and a very high honor.”