Last Saturday night was a big one for pop bands at Sancta Maria College. Three of our Year 7 & 8 bands represented us at the Manukau heats of Bandquest, which is the pop band competition for New Zealand schools at intermediate level.
DMG, Six Strings and Petram Legenda all took the stage at Auckland Girls Grammar School with eleven other bands vying for three places in the national finals.
All three bands did us proud, playing with skill and energy whilst learning a lot and having fun in the process. Whilst we did not see any of our bands make the top three, the judges were suitably impressed with our players: Andrew Choi of DMG was awarded the prize for Best Keyboard Player and Kayla Kippen was presented with the award for Best Female Vocalist.
We look forward to much more from all three bands next year as they hopefully take their first tilt at the big time with the older students in Rockquest, the pop music competition for senior schools.
