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Despite the common attitude towards the arts in South Texas, specifically music organizations, all five Brownsville high school bands earned the highest rating at Pigskin this past Saturday. Had it been a year to go to the state competition (such competition is held every other year, this year being an off year), all five bands would have gone head-to-head once again, battling for the top prize in Texas bands.

The picture above illustrates not only the high competetive level between bands and schools but also the number of young musicians involved in the arts. While not all bands were as large as Brownsville's, 20 bands attended from all over the Rio Grande Valley, filling the field from endzone to endzone. In addition, the home side of the stadium was filled, causing the audience to spill over to the visitor side as visible in the picture.

Despite my previous blog post about Pigskin, I was glad to be among a large group of people who also knew all about the competition, music and the arts in general. Though compared to the general population of the Valley this was a somewhat small group of people, it showed that there indeed are people who share the same opinion of fine arts. It didn't matter that there were strong winds blowing just about every which way or that moths the size of fist were practically smacking you in the face, what mattered was the music.