The Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA) provides a number of services for elementary through college level music groups in Southern California

Southern California

Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...

, including providing clinics for educators and students and hosting festivals for soloists and ensembles, including marching band

Marching band

Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...

 competitions.

Honor Groups

The SCSBOA honor groups for elementary through high school students are prestigious music groups which students audition for. They include the band, string orchestra, full orchestra, and jazz band. Students accepted into the groups often demonstrate their expertise in their instruments as well as their motivation to take music to a higher degree.

Festivals

The festivals run by the organization rate groups on how well they play. Each group plays three prepared pieces and then sightreads a piece that is one level below those they prepared. For many school's music groups, these festivals are long-awaited and practiced for.

Marching Band Competitions

The Marching Band Competitions are an extensive number of parade and field show competitions. SCSBOA Adjudicators are selected based on their prior experience in competition with their own groups, and are peers to the directors of the competing groups.

Parade competitions are typically hosted by cities or communities, but may be hosted by a school band. Specialized parades, called Band Reviews, consist of a parade of only bands and possibly led by a few dignitaries in automobiles. Parade Bands are judged in the categories of Band, Drill Team, Auxiliary, and Drum Major. Parades and Band Reviews may classify competing bands based on total school enrollment, size of the band, or by ranking of the band's scores from competitions in the previous season. The method of classification is determined by the event chairman.

The SCSBOA field show circuit is the most popular in Southern California, but is second in prestige to shows held by the Western Band Association

Western Band Association

The Western Band Association is a nonprofit organization that promotes high school music education in California, Arizona and Nevada. Specifically, the WBA organizes many marching band competitions for high school students...

. Field show competitions are typically hosted by a high school band, inviting other schools to attend. Although there is no rule, hosts at SCSBOA field show competitions typically do not compete in their own competition. Field show bands are judged in the categories of Band and Auxiliary, assigned a Classification based on the total number of musicians performing. Many bands strive to be selected for the SCSBOA Field Show Championships, held the first Saturday in December of each year. Throughout the season, the bands are scored and the 12 top-scoring bands in each class, based on the total of their top three scores of the season, are eligible to compete in SCSBOA Field Championships.

Field Championships Winners

	1A	2A	3A	4A	5A	6A
2002	Arlington HS Arlington High School (Riverside, California) Arlington High School is a public high school in Riverside, California, United States.-History:Founded in 1973, Arlington is one of 5 comprehensive high schools in Riverside Unified School District...	Capistrano Valley HS	Hart HS	Valencia HS	JW North HS	Etiwanda HS
2003	West Hills HS West Hills High School West Hills High School is a public, comprehensive high school located in Santee, California, and serves students in grades nine through twelve...	Santa Margarita HS	Hart HS	Valencia HS	JW North HS John W. North High School John W. North High School is a distinguished International Baccalaureate high school in Riverside, California, part of the Riverside Unified School District, and the home of the Huskies and the 1995 Division 4 CIF Football Champions. In 2006 and 2007 the North football team won back-to-back CIF...	Etiwanda HS Etiwanda High School Etiwanda High School is a public secondary school in Rancho Cucamonga, California. It is one of the eleven schools of the Chaffey Joint Union High School District.-History:Etiwanda High School is one of the oldest schools in the district...
2004	Bellflower HS Bellflower High School Bellflower High School is located in Bellflower, California, as part of the Bellflower Unified School District . Bellflower is a combination middle school and high school, having students from grades seven through twelve....	La Puente HS	Santa Margarita HS	Hart HS	Fountain Valley HS	El Dorado HS
2005	Los Angeles HS	La Puente HS La Puente High School La Puente High School is a public high school in La Puente, California, located in the San Gabriel Valley, serving grades 9-12. It was established in 1915. It is one of six high schools in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. It is a California Distinguished School and about 80% of...	San Marcos HS	Hart HS	Carlsbad HS	Chino HS
2006	Capistrano Valley HS Capistrano valley high school Capistrano Valley High School is a public high school at the southern border of Mission Viejo, California that belongs to the Capistrano Unified School District. It is set on a hilltop overlooking the I-5 freeway corridor and Saddleback Mountain. It is located on Via Escolar, off the Avery exit of...	Los Alamitos HS Los Alamitos High School Los Alamitos High School is a public school for grades 9 to 12 located in Los Alamitos, California, and also serving the city of Seal Beach and the community of Rossmoor. It is the only traditional high school in the Los Alamitos Unified School District; the far smaller Laurel High School serves...	Chino Hills HS Chino Hills High School Chino Hills High School, abbreviated CHHS, is located in Chino Hills, California and is one of the four regular high schools in the Chino Valley Unified School District. The school was established in 2001....	Hart HS	Fountain Valley HS Fountain Valley High School Fountain Valley High School is a public high school located in Fountain Valley, California. It was established in 1966 and is a part of the Huntington Beach Union High School District...	Chino HS
2007	Charter Oak HS	San Marcos HS	West Ranch HS	Hart HS	Los Osos HS Los Osos High School Los Osos High School is one of eight public schools in the Chaffey Joint Union High School District. LOHS is locate in the city of Rancho Cucamonga in Southern California's Inland Empire in the United States.-Academics:...	Chino HS
2008	San Marcos HS	Eastlake HS	West Ranch HS West Ranch High School West Ranch High School is a public high school in Stevenson Ranch, California. Bob Vincent has been the school's principal since it opened in 2004. The school mascot is the Wildcat, and navy blue and gold are the school's official colors. The Paw Print is the school's official newspaper, and is...	Hart HS	Murrieta Valley HS Murrieta Valley High School Murrieta Valley High School Opened in 1990 as the city's first four-year comprehensive high school, located in Murrieta, California. The school is nestled at the base of the Santa Rosa Plateau, at the western end of the city. It is operated by the Murrieta Valley Unified School District...	Chino HS
2009	Los Angeles HS Los Angeles High School Los Angeles High School is the oldest public high school in the Southern California Region and in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its colors are blue and white and the teams are called the Romans....	Azusa HS	Carlsbad HS	Hart HS	Savanna HS Savanna High School Savanna High School is a high school in the Anaheim Union High School District , located in the city of Anaheim in Orange County, California, of the United States. Savanna was established in 1961 and is one of eight comprehensive high schools within the district...	Chino HS
2010	San Marcos HS	Patriot HS Patriot High School Patriot High School is a high school in Jurupa Valley, California and is part of the Jurupa Unified School District. It accommodates students of the 9th to 12th grades...	Carlsbad HS	Hart HS	Nogales HS	Chino HS Chino High School Chino High School , located in Chino, California, USA, is one of the four regular high schools in the Chino Valley Unified School District. The school was established in 1897, making it one of the oldest schools in Southern California...

External links

• Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association