The Plano East Senior High School Marching Band kicks off the year with its first event, a March-a-Thon, Saturday, September 10th at 8:00 a.m. at Kimbrough Stadium.

Admission is free, and any and all are welcome to watch and support the bands! All of Plano East’s feeder middle and high school bands will be in attendance. This will include approximately 1000 students from Clark, Williams and McMillen High Schools, and the following middle schools: Armstrong, Bowman, Murphy, Otto.
 
In order to raise funds, Students will collect pledges for total miles walked by all students, with a $20 cap per donor. All funds will be directly applied to the students’ ledger. PESH Band will be attending the 2011 Bands of America Super Regional marching competition in the Alamodome in San Antonio as well as a Spring Music Festival in Chicago this year.

Band Directors at Plano East Senior High School are Evelio Villarreal, Jana Harvey, and John Brennan. Williams High School Band Directors are Travis Smith and Pete Tolhuizen. The Band Directors at Clark High School are John Mays and Michael Scott. For the new McMillen High School, the directors are Nick Thomas and Nick Beaudet.

Participating middle schools bands will be Armstrong Middle School, Annette Mitchell and Derek Phillips, directors; Bowman Middle School, Mark Caspersen and Pete Tolhuizen, directors; Murphy Middle School, Nick Seibert and Nikki Chappell, directors, and Otto Middle School, Abby Villarreal and Nick Beaudet, directors.