Asheville High School’s Halloween-themed Haunted High, created by the Asheville High School Band Association, takes place Friday, Oct. 23, 10 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday, Oct. 24, 8-11 p.m. $10.
Press release from event organizers:
The Asheville High School Band Association announces the second annual Haunted High at Asheville High School on Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24, 2015. Haunted High transforms the halls of Asheville High School into the largest, creepiest, and most-terrifying haunted house in the area to celebrate Halloween and to raise much-needed funds for the Asheville High School bands.
Inspired by classic monsters and B-movies, Haunted High is a ghoulish fun house featuring a monstrous math class, a horrific psych ward, a twisted circus of misfits and macabre clowns, an undead prom, and many other eerie and unnerving surprises. The actors and guides are students in and supporters of the AHS band. Students take the lead in set design and execution, from dreaming up devilish scenes to building the props and designing creepy costumes that maximize fear and fun.
Haunted High is the major fall fundraising event for the Asheville High School Band Association, who provide financial and logistical support for the band program. All funds raised go to purchase instruments, provide scholarships, and transport students and equipment to competitions, performances, and away games. This year, the association is also working to raise funds for both the annual costs of running the band program and to support the marching band’s performance in Hawaii as part of the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing in November 2016. AHS Band Association would like to ensure that all students are able to attend this historic and prestigious event.
Haunted High will be open on Friday, October 23 from 10pm to midnight (after the home football game versus T.C. Robertson HS) and on Saturday, October 24 from 8pm to 11pm. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door, or in advance from http://wordpress.ashevillehighbands.com/haunted-high
About the Asheville High School Band Program
The Asheville High School band has a long standing tradition of excellence. From its forty-three straight superior ratings in Grade VI music by the Wind Symphony, to the competitive marching band, we are constantly striving to make our program better. The Asheville High School Marching Band has performed in many venues in the United States and the Bahamas, and were invited to perform at the 2013 Presidential Inauguration Festival in Washington, DC.About the AHS Band Association:
The Asheville High School Band Association is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that works to support the band programs at Asheville High School. More information about the Asheville High School Band Association can be found at http://wordpress.ashevillehighbands.com/
The state of our local education system is scary enough; you don’t need to add tinsel, ghosts, and bats to it to make people frightened.
It’s not the fault of the teachers; it’s a matter of money and budget cuts. Education needs to be looked at as an investment in the future.