Please share your photos - Help build this collection

Moonglowers, April 2015

Did you take photos at the Pops Concert in January? Or at February's Cabaret Night?

Will you take your camera to SPF Jazz Fest? The Moonglower’s Festival? The Mystery of Edwin Drood?

Then please share your pictures with the rest of the SPF Music community!

This web page is the portal to an extensive collection of photos, and links to videos, of SPFHS musicians performing in concerts and competitions over the last several years. Alumni parent Dan Murphy maintains this archive -- but depends on contributions from other parents and friends of SPF Music to keep it fresh and growing.

So please help us by contributing your pictures. You can:

• Email your photos
• Email links to photos (or videos) you’ve posted elsewhere
• Email and ask Dan for a password to upload directly to our albums

The address is: spfmb.photos@gmail.com

Include a little basic info: Which event or musical group you photographed, and how you’d like to be credited on the web site. Dan will create a blog post on the Music Boosters and photo websites featuring the latest contributions.

Read our FAQ for more information. And please become a contributing photographer! Thanks.

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Click here to see our photo collection. Click here for videos. To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Our growing visual archive of the SPFHS music program

We've just added several more galleries of photos from the 2015 SPFHS Marching Band season. Scroll through the posts below to find them, or go to our index of photo albums.

This web site now proudly features well over 100 galleries of photos of Scotch Plains-Fanwood student musicians at performances in auditoriums, on football fields and at other venues during the past nine years. We also have links to videos in many cases.

While the past few months have been dominated by marching band, we also have many albums of pictures from instrumental and choral concerts, parades, music department trips and other performances by our student musicians.

PLEASE REMEMBER: This site depends on the friends and families of SPFHS musicians to provide photos. If you take photos or shoot video of student performances, please share them! Just e-mail Dan Murphy with images or links to your online albums or videos. Help us keep this archive growing!

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Click here to see our photo collection. Click here for videos. To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Photos added from Yamaha Cup, J.P. Stevens

We've added more photos from the Sept. 26 Yamaha Cup competition at MetLife Stadium, as well as pictures from the Oct. 4 show at J.P. Stevens.

Scroll down to see those entries.

Keep checking back for more updates.

DID YOU KNOW: We now have 106 albums of photos of SPFHS music performances going back to 2007! Find links to all of them here.

And contact Dan if you have pictures you'd like to share.

SPFHS Wins USBands National Championship

Completing a sweep of the season's major awards on the USBands competition circuit, the SPFHS Raiders Marching Band took first place for Group 6-A at the National Championships in Allentown, Pa., on Saturday, Nov. 8.

The band and color guard achieved a score of 92.875 and took all caption awards: Best Color Guard, Best Percussion, Best Music, Best Visual and Best Overall Effect.

In addition, the Raiders received the U.S. Army Award of Excellence.



Band parent Dev Anjaria has posted an extensive album of photographs of the band's preparation and performance, plus the award presentation. Click here to go to the album.

Warming up in Allentown

Congratulations to all involved on a terrific season!

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Click here to see our photo collection. Click here for videos. To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

New videos added from Disney Trip 2013

We're always happy to add to our collection of SPFHS musicians, whether the images are fresh, less recent or historic.

We're now catching up on videos from the past year submitted by band parent Maria Mulcahy. We've added three from the May trip to Disney World: Maria's view of the Main Street Parade, and two videos from the Moonglower's performance. Click here to see them!

If you take photos or videos of upcoming SPFHS musical performances, or have shots of old shows, we'd be happy to share them here. Click here to e-mail Dan with photos, links or for instructions on uploading directly to our collection. Thanks!

NOTE TO READERS: Missing photo albums aren't really missing

Google, which runs the Blogger and Picasa programs we use for this site, has been tinkering with both - sometimes breaking the older photo slideshows on these pages. So you might see some big blank spaces instead of photo albums in posts from the past few years.

But the photo albums all still exist, and can be accessed from our Photo Album index page.

Coming up: Pops Concert, Day of Percussion, Caberet Night

A scene from Pops Concert 2012

The SPFHS Pops Concert, featuring the school's various instrumental ensembles, is coming up this week, on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. To get in the mood, have a look back at some photos and video clips of last year's show.

On Saturday , Feb. 9, our school will host its annual Day of Percussion, featuring performances by percussion ensembles from SPFHS and several other schools, plus clinics by four outstanding performers and educators. See this flyer for more details.

And Wednesday, Feb. 13, will be Cabaret Night in the high school auditorium, starting at 7:30 p.m. Come hear a variety of music from musicals, movies and more. There will be many solo performances in addition to choral arrangements of selections from Irving Berlin, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Les Miserables.

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Click here to see our photo collection. Click here for videos. To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Raider Marching Band has new web site

The SPFHS Marching Band's drum majors have launched a web site that will provide vital information for band members and their families, as well as audio and video files and links to other sites of interest.

Be sure to check it out at:

http://spfhsmb.webs.com/

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Click here to see our photo collection. Click here for videos. To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Congratulations on great performances in Boston

Our musical students traveled to Boston April 19-22 to take part in a Festival of Music evaluation program.

WERE YOU THERE?
DID YOU TAKE PICTURES?

We're looking for photos
of our SPFHS musicians on the
2012 Spring Evaluation Trip
to Boston.

PLEASE SHARE YOUR
PHOTOS OR VIDEOS!

Please e-mail Dan to add
your images to our collection.
Thanks!

Twelve schools from Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and Canada participated. The ensembles were given ratings of superior, excellent, good, fair or poor.

Here are the results for Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School:

• SELECT CHOIR: Superior, 1st Place
• CONCERT CHOIR: Superior, 1st Place, Best Overall Mixed Choir
• LAS CAN: Superior, 1st Place
• CHAMBER CHOIR: Superior, 1st Place, Best Overall Choir
• MEN'S CHOIR: Excellent, 1st Place
• CONCERT BAND: Excellent, 1st Place
• JAZZ BAND A: Excellent, 1st Place
• JAZZ BAND B: Excellent
• PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: Good
• RHYTHMSENSE: Excellent, 2nd Place
• WINTER GUARD: Excellent, 2nd Place
• SPF JAZZ: Superior, 1st Place
• MOONGLOWERS: Superior, 1st Place, Best Overall Jazz Band
• WIND ENSEMBLE: Superior, 1st Place, William D. Revelli Award for Best Overall Concert Band
• MOONGLOWER SAXOPHONE SECTION: Best Overall Section
• NICK POULIOS: Outstanding Jazz Soloist, Outstanding Choral Accompanist.

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Click here to see our photo collection.
Click here for videos.
To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Submissions Wanted! Please help build our collection

The Choral Caberet. The Jazz Festival. The trip to Randolph. "Anything Goes" rehearsals.

There's been a lot going on in the past few weeks for our Spiffy musicians. Surely some parents and friends - and musicians themselves - have taken photos and videos of performances? Maybe captured some memorable backstage moments too?

Please share your shots and clips with other members of our school's music community. Help build our archive of SPFHS musical moments.

Simply e-mail Dan Murphy, the keeper of this site, and attach your photos... or ask him for instructions to upload them directly... or send him links to your own online photo albums or videos.

Thanks!

Click here to see our photo collection.
To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Photos Wanted! Videos Too!

The Winter Choral Concert? Moonglowers and Sensations at the Mayor's Gala? The Chamber Choir at the Scotch Plains Library and the Fanwood tree lighting ceremony?

Did that just happen? Were you there? Did you take any photos or videos, or know someone who did?

If so, we'd love to add them to this site, our ongoing visual record of the SPFHS music programs. Please e-mail Dan with pictures, links, or to ask for instructions on uploading them.

Click here to see our entire collection.
To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Help us build our video collection

Videos featured on this site include some recorded by band parent Dan Murphy and others found at other web sites and re-posted here. We hope to add many more, and welcome the help of any and all members of the SPFHS Music community. If you have video of SPFHS music performances, whether recent or from years past, please contribute them to this collection. The simplest way to do so is to post them on YouTube or another video-hosting site and send us a link or embed code. Or, contact Dan for other ways to share.

Also be sure to check out the videos on SPTV?

Click here to see our entire collection.
To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

More photos added to 2011 States album

2011 States

Another 29 photos have been added to our "2011 States" album. Thanks to the new contributions from Jay Tepper, we now have the USSBA New Jersey State competition covered from three different angles, and from the pre-show warm-ups through the awards ceremony. Click the image at left to check it out.

Click here to see our entire collection.
To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Marching band - and beyond!

The conclusion of the 2011 Marching Band season, Allentown, Nov. 13 

Started as a collection of SPFHS Marching Band photos, this site is now expanding.

At the suggestion of other members of the SPFHS Music community, this page is now welcoming contributions of photos -- and videos -- of all Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School music groups.

To get things started... the photo at the top of the page is now from the 2011 Musicfest last April. Below is a shot from the 2011 Spring Choral Concert in May. There's a brief clip from the finale of that show on our new Video page. And a few pictures from the 2011 Spring and 2010 Winter Choral Concerts have been added to our photo collection.

The goal is to build up this site as an ongoing visual record of our school’s excellent music programs, with as many images from as many camera-carrying musicians, family members, boosters and friends as possible.

Please help build our collection! And thanks for your support.

Click here to see our entire collection.
To submit photos or videos, click here to e-mail Dan.

Lovin' it at McDonald's

The band made a promotional appearance Nov. 12 at the grand re-opening of the McDonald's on Route 22 in Scotch Plains. A few snapshots have been added to our 2011 Collection album.

From 2011 Collection

NOTICE: On Tuesday, November 29, if you eat at McDonald's from 4:00-7:00 pm, and tell them you're a Music Booster, McDonald's will donate 20% of the proceeds back to the SPFHS Music Boosters organization. Come by and support our talented kids!

Click here to see our entire photo collection.
To submit your own photos, click here to e-mail Dan.