{"id":168837,"date":"2022-11-09T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=168837"},"modified":"2022-11-15T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:00:51","slug":"rainbow-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/09\/rainbow-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Local marching bands return to Rainbow Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1668563998169{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}&#8221;]\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-marching-band-performance-stands.jpg\" alt=\"250 people with instruments in the bleachers\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-148334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-marching-band-performance-stands.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-marching-band-performance-stands-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/manoa-marching-band-performance-stands-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/>After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhbands.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Bands<\/a> at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhbands.org\/highschoolevents\/\">41st Rainbow Invitational<\/a> for local high school marching bands on November 10, at the Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><strong>Rainbow Invitational<\/strong><br \/>Clarence T.C. Ching Athletics Complex<br \/>November 10<br \/>5:30 p.m.<br \/>Admission: $10 general, $8 students<br \/><\/span>The event has been held annually since 1979 at Aloha Stadium. The marching band festival was featured at the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa campus.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Band <span aria-label=\"ohana\">&#699;ohana<\/span> is thrilled to bring back together the hundreds of music students around our state for this event,&rdquo; said <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Director of Bands <strong>Jeffrey Boeckman<\/strong>. &ldquo;The vast majority of our <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Band members come from these schools. It is a way for us to give back and at the same time, hopefully inspire everyone as they get a chance to see each other&#8217;s shows.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Rainbow Warrior Marching Band invites clinician experts to provide feedback to the bands and their directors that can be used to make changes and improvements to the schools\u2019 shows.<\/p>\n<p>This year, composer and marching band arranger Todd Zimbelman, Michael McIntosh (percussion) and Gregory Mar (colorguard) will provide the comments and notes for the participating bands.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=&#8221;3&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1668563626139-cebb8019-6350-5&#8243; include=&#8221;169152,169150,169147,169144,169140,169141,169149,169146,169148,169145&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1668564009924{margin-bottom: 15px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]\n<p>A total of 15 high school bands will perform at the Rainbow Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Participating schools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aiea\/Radford<\/li>\n<li>Campbell<\/li>\n<li>Castle<\/li>\n<li><span aria-label=\"Iolani\">&#699;Iolani<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Kailua<\/li>\n<li>Kaiser<\/li>\n<li>Kalani<\/li>\n<li>Kamehameha<\/li>\n<li>Kapolei<\/li>\n<li>Leilehua<\/li>\n<li>Mililani<\/li>\n<li>Moanalua<\/li>\n<li>Pearl City<\/li>\n<li>Punahou<\/li>\n<li>Roosevelt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 15 high school bands will perform at the Rainbow Invitational on November 10. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[133,9],"class_list":["post-168837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-music","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168837"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169158,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168837\/revisions\/169158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}