Welcome to the Home of the St. Helens Band Program

Congratulations to the SHHS Wind Ensemble!!
​2018-2019 League Band Champions and 4th place at the OSAA 5A State Band Championships!
The St. Helens Band Program has a rich tradition of excellence in music making.  We are a 6-12th grade program that features Middle School Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Bands, and a high school program with a Jazz Band, Concert Band. Wind Ensemble, Competitive Marching Band and Color Guard, Pep Bands and Winter Guard and Winter Percussion Programs. 
Performing "Gale Force" in Finals at the Pride of the Northwest in Grants Pass, OR.   The band finished 2nd in AA and won High Visual in prelims and 2nd place overall in finals. 
Low Brass and Low Woodwinds getting ready to head to warm-up. Fall 2019 PNW. 
Performing our 2019 Show "Gale Force" at PCI (Sprague HS) 
Performing our 2019 Show "Gale Force" at PCI (Sprague HS)  
​Featured: Alana Saul 
The 2019 Winter Percussion Ensemble performing their 2019 show "Beethoven's Nightmare". 
Taylor Jacobs performing at halftime at our last football game of the 2018 season.  "Shadow Effect". 
2018 Fall Marching Band and Guard Members in the stands at PCI
A gallery of photos from the 2019 Pride of the Northwest at Grants Pass High School.
Our marching band and guard Class of 2020! 
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Seniors Shanelle Mercer-Huson, Isaac VanHook and Madison Collin at PCI 2019
2019 Drumline with our instructor, Justin Hawkins
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Our 2019 Winter Guard performing "Into the Rose Garden". 
Performing out 2018 Field Show "Shadow Effect". 
Alana Saul performing at halftime at our last football game of the 2018 season.  "Shadow Effect". ​
The pit performing at halftime at our last football game of the 2018 season.  "Shadow Effect". 
Your 2018 St. Helens High School Marching Band and Color Guard!
A slideshow of the Wind Ensemble at the 2018 OSAA 5A State Championships.
2018 Wind Ensemble Seniors accepting their 2nd place trophy at the OSAA 5A State Band Championships.
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Wind Ensemble Seniors accepting the 2018 NWOC League Band Championship trophy!
The 2018 Winter Guard celebrating our one guard senior Jenny, at NWAPA Guard Championships!!
The 2018 Winter Percussion Ensemble at the McMinnville Show. This is the first year SHHS has had a competitive marching percussion ensemble unit.
The SHHS Winter Guard performing their 2018 show "Oracal" at the Columbia River Winter Arts Invitational, our home show at SHHS.
Halftime performance at the Think Pink game. 2017
Halftime performance at the Think Pink game. 2017
St. Helens Parade 2017
Congratulations to the SHHS Wind Ensemble on their 2nd Place finish at the 2017 OSAA 5A State Band Championships!!
Coach Kristen Heckers with Captains Amanda Click and Alycia Eidem at the WGI Portland Regional 2017. The Winter Guard took 3rd place in Scholastic Regional A!
Kylar Niles and Jake English performing at the Skyview Jazz Festival in December 2016
Class of 2017 Senior Marching Band and Guard members at Band Senior Night. Fall 2016
The 2016 Wind Ensemble at the OSAA 5A State Band Contest.
The SHHS Wind Ensemble onstage at the 2015 OSAA 5A State Band Championship.
The 2015 SHHS Marching Band and Color Guard 
Basketball Band 2014-2015 at a home game.
The SHHS Jazz Band performing at the 2016 West Salem Jazz Festival.
Our seniors during the awards ceremony. 5th Place at the 2016 OSAA 5A State Band Championships.
The SHHS Marching Band and Color Guard 2015 rehearsing under the lights and a  beautiful fall sunset.
Taken during our 2012 Civil War 'O' Gram deliveries. The SHHS band deliverers UO and OSU fight songs all over the community each November, before the big Civil War Game.
2015 Marching Band Senior Class
Halftime performance at the Think Pink game. 2017
Members of the class of 2017 after the Senior Assembly.
Fall Pep Band at the 7 Mile War game in September 2016
The Marching Band and Color Guard perform their 2016 field show "Dreamality".
The 2015 SHHS Marching Band and Color Guard after prelim awards at the Pride of the Northwest Marching Band Competition in Grants Pass, OR
Wind Ensemble at State 2015
The 2015  SHHS Marching Band and Color Guard performing thier show "Trapped" at the Pride of the Northwest Marching Band Competition at Grants Pass High School. 
The 2016 Wind Ensemble. NWOC League Champions!!
The 2016 Winter Guard competing at an  NWAPA event.
The 2015 football pep band in the stands at an early season game.
Guard members Gabby Johanson and Lilly Zimmerlee performing "Drive" in the fall of 2014.
Intermediate Band members at Fort Stevens after their performance at the 2016 Developing Band Festival.
Wind Ensemble warming up at Sandy High School for the 2016 NWOC League Band Championship performance.
Our 2015 Senior Band students. On stage for Senior recognition during the final concert of the year.
2016 Basketball Band at a home game with members of the SHMS Advanced Band.
Wind Ensemble watching bands at State. 2016
The SHHS Marching Band and Guard performing "Desert Kingdom" at the 2013 PCI.
The SHHS Marching Band Flute Section during the first day of drill. Fall 2015.
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Members of the Marching Band in the stands at a marching band competition. Fall 2015