Monday, May 14, 2007

Steel Drum Band Makes a Big Comeback








Last Friday, my daughter participated in a reunion of her bandmates from her middle school steel drum band by playing at the Mount Prospect Library.

In 2004, this very same group played at the library and was seen on the Oprah Winfrey Show because their teacher, Steve Flowers was one of the teachers honored on the Oprah show. Besides having a featurette on the show, Mr. Flowers and several other teachers were given lots of gifts from Oprah as a "thank you" for being teachers and teaching kids! We were all very proud and happy to see one of our teachers being honored by Oprah! Click Here to see a video clip from the show.

Mr. Flowers has gathered the same kids every year to join in to play at various venues including the Mount Prospect Library. So going back to this venue had special significance for the group and Mr. Flowers. To see last year's performance, check out the May 1, 2006 post in the Archive section of my blog.

Besides photographing the group that evening, I had a great time photographing the people at the event as well. I love the shot of his daughter holding her ears as the group played! Only a teacher's kid can get away with that!

The conga line was a big hit as well. But I think the kids were wondering when it was going to end... LOL

A big thanks to Steve Flowers for continuing to work with our kids and being a great teacher!

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