Ensemble

McAlester High School Bands

McAlester documents sixth- through eighth-grade, wind, symphonic, marching, and auxiliary ensembles.

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People and leadership

The reviewed evidence for McAlester High School Bands does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Community and organization

McAlester High School Bands is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.

Reading the evidence

The evidence for McAlester High School Bands does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Current; origin not established as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

Questions for further research

For McAlester High School Bands: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 2005

    McAlester won the John Parnell Marching Festival in 2005.

  2. 2010

    A surviving 2010 OBA 4A/5A finals score sheet records McAlester among the finalists.

  3. 2025

    The official Pride of McAlester page describes a grades-9–12 high-school marching band and color guard and reports 2025 Blazing Glory activity at OSSAA, OBA, Bixby, and Yukon events.

  4. 2025

    The official McAlester page reports straight Superior ratings at the OSSAA 5A Southeast Regional, third place at OBA 5A State Marching Championships, and Bixby/Yukon invitational placements and caption awards for the 2025 season.

  5. 2025

    McAlester High School Bands placed third in the 2025 OBA 5A final with an 80.00 score.

  6. 2026

    The official McAlester Color Guard page documents 2026 winter-guard results at Broken Arrow, Deer Creek, Oologah, Tahlequah, Bixby, and Union.

Sources

  1. www.mcalesterbands.com/the-pride-of-mcalester
  2. www.mcalesterbands.com/guard
  3. www.ok-bc.com/2005-scores/
  4. www.ok-bc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OBA10_4A-5A_Finals.pdf
  5. www.ok-bc.com/hrf_faq/10-25-25-oba-class-5a-championships/