South High School Band Director Noah Johnson was awarded the American School Band Directors Association Young Band Director of the Year award on Tuesday during South’s holiday band concert. This national award, from the American School Band Directors Association and sponsored by Schmitt Music, is awarded to an outstanding young band director in recognition of their efforts and musical achievement for school bands. Founded in 1953, American School Band Directors Association is a national organiza

I was in high school the first time I went to a Grateful Dead concert. I didn’t so much as see them as felt them at the Fillmore on Geary Street in San Francisco, 1967. The music and the Fillmore melded together, the band and audience giving a nod to the other. Years later, many of The Dead had come to a show Little Feat played at a club In Berkeley. We were on the marquee as Small Feet. Receiving that kind of affirmation from them, for me, was surreal. On September 14, 2002, Bob Weir sat in wit