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Calallen High School's band program is made up of about 130 students, under the direction of Craig Ewing, with assistance from Jeffery Valperts, Glenn Herbst, Alonzo Martinez, and Calallen's Visual Caption Head Joe Steeb. The band is known for its complex drill and its consistently challenging performance repertoires. The band's 2007 show "Thrill Ride" came close to the state marching contest, but Calallen came up empty-handed after a tie breaker with Alice and Floresville. In 2009, the band advanced to the state marching contest where it made its eleventh appearance with the show "Four". The band's "Percussion Theater" was awarded the state title in '07, '08, '09, '11, and '12 while the band's "Percussion Ensemble" was awarded the state title in '13 which overall in Percussion won state 6 times out of the past 7 years. The band's Winterguard was awarded the state title 4 times with the recent title being in 2011.

Calallen Percussion Theater and Calallen Percussion Ensemble
The Calallen Percussion Theater is a program mentored by Joe Steeb in the winter time with tryouts at the end of the fall semester. The Calallen Percussion Theater was awarded 5 State Titles in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012. During the Fall Semester of 2012 it was announced that a 2013 Calallen Percussion Theater will not happen. Instead of a 2013 percussion theater, for the first time it is a Calallen Percussion Ensemble (similar to the Percussion Theater, except it's a stand still performance instead of lots of body movement like the past). The show for the 2013 Calallen Percussion Ensemble is called "Supernova". On March 22, 2013, the Calallen Percussion Ensemble won state. That makes the Percussion group state champions 6 times out of the past 7 years.

Calallen Percussion Theater shows since 2007

 * 2007-Synergy
 * 2008-Evolution
 * 2009-What's Behind?
 * 2010-Breathe
 * 2011-Slow Me Down
 * 2012-Crazy

Calallen Percussion Ensemble shows

 * 2013-Supernova

Calallen Winterguard
The Calallen Winterguard is a program currently mentored by Kami Valperts. The Calallen Winterguard was awarded 4 state titles with the recent title being in 2011.

Calallen Winterguard shows since 2011

 * 2011-Lost
 * 2012-Umbrella
 * 2013-Colorguard For Dummies

Calallen Band: 2010-2011
For the 2010 show "Deja View", the band competed in the Lakeshore Marching Festival at Mathis HS, U.I.L. Region 14 Marching Contest at Calallen HS, and USSBA marching band championships at the Woodlands, TX (near Houston). The band was awarded "Band of the Week" the first week of the football season. At the Lakeshore Marching Festival, the band received 2 awards; Best Percussion in Class 4A and Best Drum Majors in Class 4A. At the U.I.L. Region 14 Marching Contest, they received a Superior Rating (1st Division) from the judges. The Calallen band also marched exhibition at the 3A Area E Marching Contest (Regions 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 28) at Calallen HS. The Calallen band competed at their last competition with the show "Deja View" at the USSBA Marching championships at the Woodlands (near Houston) and the band got 3rd place in 4A. The Calallen band performed "Deja View" for the last time at their last football game of the season against CC Ray at Calallen HS.

Calallen Band: 2011-2012
For the 2011-2012 show "A Hero's Journey" was the first time the Calallen band has done something different. The band was awarded "Band of the Week" the first week of the football season. For this show, the band competed at Bands of America located the Woodlands, near Houston, the Lakeshore Marching Festival at Mathis HS, the U.I.L. Region 14 Marching Contest at Calallen HS, the 4A U.I.L. Area G Marching Contest at Calallen HS, and finally the 4A U.I.L. State Marching Competition at the Alamodome in San Antonio. At Bands of America, the Calallen band got 2nd place in Class 2A. At the Lakeshore Marching Festival, they received Best Percussion in Class 4A, Best Drum Majors in Class 4A, Runner up Colorguard in Class 4A, Best Band in Class 4A, and the Grand Champions in 4A/5A overall. At the U.I.L. Region 14 Marching Contest, the Calallen band received a Superior Rating (1st Division) from the judges which awarded the band to compete at the 4A U.I.L. Area G Marching Contest. From there, they competed in Prelims and received 2nd place overall and made it to Area Finals along with Veterans Memorial HS, Alice HS, Floresville HS, H.M. King HS, Victoria West HS, and Roma HS. From there, the band were Area Champions of the competition and made their twelfth appearance to the State Marching Contest along with Roma HS (2nd place) and Alice HS (3rd place) and H.M. King being the Alternate band (4th place). From there the Calallen band competed against 24 other bands at the U.I.L. State Marching Contest and the band made 17th place. The band performed the show "A Hero's Journey" for the last time at Calallen's first playoff game against Mercedes HS.

Calallen Band: 2012-2013
For the 2012-2013 show "Once Upon a Time" the band competed in the HEB Marching Festival on October 6, 2012 in Hurst, TX (located between Dallas/Fort Worth), scoring 5th place in 4A Division and 9th place overall in pre-lims and 8th place in finals. The band also competed in the Lake Shore Marching Festival on October 13, 2012 at Mathis HS, and was awarded Runner-Up Color Guard in 4A, Best Drum Majors in 4A, Best Percussion in 4A, Best 4A Band, and Grand Champions (4th time the Calallen band has been Grand Champions at the Lake Shore Marching Festival out of the past 5 years). The Calallen band competed in the U.I.L. Region 14 Marching Contest on October 20, 2012 at Calallen HS, and received a Superior Rating from the judges (1st Division). The Calallen band also hosted and marched exhibition at the U.I.L. 3A Area (Regions 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 28) Marching Contest on October 27, 2012. The band ended their show "Once Upon A Time" by competing at Bands of America Super Regionals on November 3, 2012 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX where the band place 4th in the 2A Division. The Calallen Band was also awarded KIII TV's Blitz Band of The Week against CC King on the week of October 7–13, 2012, setting a current record number of 39,000 votes. On November 4, 2012, the Calallen band was nominated for "Band of the Year" since they were one of the bands who won "Band of the Week". They won the award against 9 other bands, making the Calallen Band the first inaugural KIII-TV Blitz Band of The Year.

Calallen Band: 2013-2014
In January 2013, it was announced that the 2013 Calallen marching band will be using new marching band uniforms. On April 2, 2013, it was announced that the new marching band uniforms would be presented in front of the CISD school board on April 8, 2013. On May 6, 2013, Assistant band director Brett Orr announced that the 2012-2013 school year will be his last year as an assistant band director at Calallen High School. On May 21, 2013, the 2013 Calallen marching band show was announced, titled "The Music of Shostakovich". On May 30, 2013, the 2013-2014 Calallen Drum Major auditions were held. Final results are, Head-Heather Packard, Assistant-Mercedes Rivera, Alternate-Lianna Peña. On June 12, 2013, to take place of former assistant band director Brett Orr, the new Calallen High School assistant band director Jeffery Valperts joined the Calallen Band program. Jeffery has been an assistant band director before for the Calallen Middle/High school band programs from 2004-2007.

Calallen marching band shows since 1999:

 * 1999-A Spanish Fantasy
 * 2000-James Bond
 * 2001-Gladiator
 * 2002-Bizarro
 * 2003-Miracle and Finale
 * 2004-Anime
 * 2005-Reflections
 * 2006-Metal
 * 2007-Thrill Ride
 * 2008-Sound, Shape, & Color
 * 2009-Four
 * 2010-Deja View
 * 2011-A Hero's Journey
 * 2012-Once Upon a Time
 * 2013-The Music of Shostakovich

Current Calallen band directors:

 * Craig Ewing (2000-present)
 * Jeffery Valperts (2004-2007; 2013-present)
 * Glenn Herbst (2003-present)
 * Alonzo Martinez (2009-present)

Past Calallen band directors:

 * Jeff Stone (1974-2000)
 * Scott Roberts (2003-2005)


 * Ernesto Constante (2005-2009)
 * Richard Rodriguez (2007-2008)
 * Brett Orr (2008-2013)