Few folks have had high-school experiences extra spectacular than the Jonesboro Excessive College Majestic Marching Cardinals. On the prime of 2024, the coed marching band was featured in a business for Usher‘s Apple Music Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present, and just some weeks later, they had been handled to a really particular shock go to from none aside from first woman Jill Biden.
The primary woman made a shock digital go to on Wednesday (March 27) to greater than 150 college students from Atlanta’s Jonesboro Excessive College throughout an after-school rehearsal. As Dr. Biden seems on the display screen, the scholars gasp in shock. “I can’t wait till you come to the White Home,” she instructed the scholars, earlier than letting the youngsters know she’s nonetheless educating.
The Majestic Marching Cardinals are set to play at this yr’s White Home Easter Egg Roll Monday (April 1), and Dr. Biden appeared by way of Zoom to thank the scholars for his or her exhausting work and dedication forward of their efficiency.
“After the decision with the primary woman, there was a hush over the band room and a few college students started to cry from all the thrill,” band director Lynel Goodwin tells Billboard. “We took a second to replicate on how our musical journey and their abilities led to a chance like this – to carry out on the White Home. This life-changing alternative means the world to my college students, band dad and mom and our Jonesboro neighborhood.”
This yr’s White Home Easter Egg Roll theme continues the primary woman’s dedication to “EGGucation,” a nod to her greater than 30 years within the educating career. Dr. Biden is about to rework each the South Garden and the Ellipse right into a neighborhood stuffed with academic actions, rolling and looking Easter eggs, a studying nook, an image day station and a bodily “EGGucation” zone.
As well as, there can even be a band corridor the place the Majestic Marching Cardinals will grace the stage. A number of different bands are additionally slated to carry out on the occasion — which is anticipated to welcome greater than 40,000 visitors — together with Phoenix’s Tolleson Elementary College District Marching Band, the Independence Excessive College Marching Band from Brambleton, Va., and George Mason College Inexperienced Machine of Fairfax, Va.
To proceed their momentum, the Majestic Marching Cardinals can even carry out at this yr’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Below the route of Goodwin, the Majestic Marching Cardinals have introduced their particular Atlanta aptitude to a few of America’s grandest phases. Their momentum additionally traces up with that of pupil marching bands usually: In 2023, Tennessee State College’s Aristocrat of Bands made historical past as the primary marching band to with the Grammy for greatest roots gospel album (The City Hymnal).
Watch a clip of first woman Jill Biden shocking the Majestic Marching Cardinals under.
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