The Kranz Junior High Honors Band has been selected as a National Winner in the Mark of Excellence/ National Wind Band Honors project. Coordinated by the Foundation for Music Education, the competition allows schools to enter recordings in which the top quarter are selected as National Winners and the second quarter receive Commended Honors. 
 
This year, 236 of the finest musical ensembles in the nation entered the competition. The project now has received entries from 38 states. All of the groups receive recorded and written comments from the adjudicators, and a compilation recording of the National Winners. 
 
You can hear the talented Kranz band students in two different recordings below: