# @macjournalism on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-06-26T04:16:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

## Caption

We posted a special summer Tuesday Top 10 photo essay today to our website today. The essay includes 14 of our best photos with terrific captions by photojournalist Lillian Gray. Here is one of the photos and captions you’ll find in the essay. To see the rest, click the link in our bio or visit macshieldonline.com. 

Jaiden Frausto (Dobie), Adrian Perez (Northeast), Desmand Zacarius (Northeast), Sebastian Valdez (Navarro) and Matt Consuelo (Northeast) perform as part of the 137-member Austin All-Star Band. The All-Star Band, one of many marching in the Juneteenth parade, included musicians and dancers from AISD schools including Northeast, Navarro, LBJ, Eastside, Dobie, Webb and Sadler Means and was led by Northeast ECHS band director Rory Guice.

“I used to come watch the Alvin Patterson Battle of the Bands, which was hosted at Nelson Field the evening of the parade each year starting in 2005,” he said. “Once I began teaching in Austin ISD, I became an assistant director of the All-Star Band in 2010. I took over as head director of the All-Star Band in 2017.”

Austin All-Star Band members participate in a camp for two weeks leading up to the Juneteenth Parade. The Austin All-Star Band Camp is free of charge and introduces “Show Style,” typical of HBCU marching bands, to local students.

When he started with the All-Star Band, Guice was the only director who had HBCU experience. A graduate of Prairie View A&M University, he was a proud member of the Marching Storm.

“‘Drumline,’ the movie, was a great introduction of the HBCU style of bands to the masses,” he shared, “but the full community is huge, spanning all over the U.S. with a rich history of tradition in marching bands, brass bands, and drumlines.”

Caption and photo by Lillian Gray.

#juneteenth #juneteenthcelebration #juneteenth2024 #austintx #aisdproud #atx #atxlife

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