12-03-2025
Percussion Showcase set to return to Brandon Valley
BRANDON, S.D. (KELO) — The sounds of drums will ring throughout Brandon Valley High School on Saturday.
Declan Lee is a senior at Brandon Valley High School and member of the Indoor Drumline, playing the bass drum.
'If you ask anyone else, they'd probably tell me I'm way too loud all the time, so I just enjoy drumming, so much fun to me,' Brandon Valley senior Declan Lee said.
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That volume will be on display this weekend, as Brandon Valley hosts the South Dakota Percussion Showcase.
'I'm looking forward to showing off all the work we've put in, finally seeing everyone around here because most of the competitions are pretty far away so not many people get to see them around here,' Lee said.
'We're hosting percussion groups, color guards, and brass and woodwind,' Brandon Valley Director of Percussion Devon Melillo said.
Devon Melillo is the Director of Percussion.
'It will be a variety of concert percussion groups that are performing what you might expect more at a band concert and then more of the marching percussion theater where they're performing a show,' Melillo said.
19 groups will perform this Saturday, including Brandon Valley. The theme of this year's show is The Cave.
'We are illustrating a cave where on the floor we have a tarp that's colored and textured, along with some props, specifically taking the audience into kind of a different world,' Melillo said.
'Pretty simple down to the name, The Cave, it's creepy, like loud, and bunch of different emotions from different movements,' Lee said.
Brandon Valley has 33 kids between its drumline and front ensemble, and Lee says they're ready to deliver.
'I think we've made amazing progress over not that much time, a few rehearsals, and shows completely different than two weeks ago,' Lee said.
The competition begins at 3:00 p.m. Saturday at Brandon Valley High School. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students, while kids ages 5-and-under are free.
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