On January 16, the Roland Parrish Battle of the Bands 2022 Invitational & College Expo took place in Texas and featured 10 of Texas and Louisiana’s top High School Band.
The theme of the show for Cedar Hill was “A Tribute To The Jackson Family.” The Red Army Band performed “That’s The Way Love Goes” – the 1993 Janet Jackson song – and a Michael Jackson Medley. The Cedar Hill High School Red Army Marching Band won the competition and took home the title in the inaugural Roland Parrish Band Competition.
Watch them performed:
Other schools paid tribute to Michael Jackson such as Sunset High School Marching Band who performed “Man In The Mirror”:
North Texas entrepreneur and philanthropist Roland Parrish got super creative when he wanted to do something good for local high school band programs.
“This started after I went to a football game between Skyline and Duncanville. I’ve been very involved with Dallas ISD and I know that most of their extracurriculars would gladly take a boost in their treasury,” Parrish said. “So I thought it would be great to give a contribution to various bands. So that lead to the discussion with my team about hosting a battle of the bands.”
Generally, only the winner of such a contest would get the prize money, but Parrish had other plans.
“Ten days prior to the event, we sent $5,000 cashier checks to all 10 schools, before we even knew who was going to win the competition. So whether the event was going to be cancelled or not because of the pandemic, we were going to still give them the money,” Parrish said.
Schools that participated: Cedar Hill School, Cedar Hill, TX Huntington High School, Shreveport, LA Lancaster High School, Lancaster, TX Skyline High School, Dallas, TX South Oak Cliff High School, Dallas, TX Sunset High School, Dallas, TX Westbury High School, Houston, TX Townview Magnet Center, Dallas, TX Thurgood Marshall High School, Missouri City, TX Wilmer Hutchins High School, Dallas, TX
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