{"id":22866,"date":"2025-04-04T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/all-district-band-night-continues-tradition-in-cortez-on-april-17\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:18:57","slug":"all-district-band-night-continues-tradition-in-cortez-on-april-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/all-district-band-night-continues-tradition-in-cortez-on-april-17\/","title":{"rendered":"All-District Band Night continues tradition in Cortez on April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=aeecd8be-f007-5c72-85bc-e62df5232f65&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1781\" height=\"1336\" alt=\"This year\u2019s All-District Band Night is set for April 17 at 7 p.m. at Montezuma-Cortez High School. (Andrew Campo\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">This year\u2019s All-District Band Night is set for April 17 at 7 p.m. at Montezuma-Cortez High School. (Andrew Campo\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 years ago, the bands in the district joined for a night of music and community, and this year is no different.<\/p>\n<p>The concert and live auction is Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m. at Montezuma-Cortez High School. Doors open at 6:15 p.m., and it\u2019s free. Auctions, held between band performances, benefit the bands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt brings all the bands in the district together,\u201d William Winslow, director of bands for the district, told <em id=\"emphasis-e22929a63a2db82ea90927e71298c5e2\">The Journal.<\/em> \u201cI think there\u2019s almost 300 kids at the middle school and almost 100 kids at the high school, so it will be almost 400 performers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of its scale, the event is held in the Montezuma-Cortez High School gymnasium rather than the auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The bands perform separately, then come together at the end of the night to play \u201cBattle Hymn of the Republic\u201d and \u201cSing for America,\u201d which have been performed at All-District Band Night since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe work on the music for a few months beforehand,\u201d Winslow said. \u201cWe\u2019re preparing, trying to make it sound as good as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winslow shared that one of his favorite parts about preparing for the event is seeing the community and bands come together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always very excited for this thing, because I think it\u2019s a really cool example of the community coming together,\u201d Winslow said. \u201cWe have the band with donations from various businesses, all the people who attend and all the students who come. It\u2019s been around so long. All the people that are in town who were in band remember doing it, and it\u2019s a fun connection. There\u2019s multiple generations there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the district\u2019s middle school and high school come together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,147,28,60,36,216,559,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-middle-school","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-montezuma-cortez-school-district-re-1","tag-music","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77884,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions\/77884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22866"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}