Westport Middle School Band

05/28/2026

Happy to announce that the Westport Middle School Band earned the American School Band Directors Association Band of Distinction Award for our high scores at the 2026 KMEA District 12 Large Ensemble Performance Assessment! Congrats students! Thank you for all your hard work this year!

05/21/2026

We had a blast at our 2nd annual end of year Band Olympics!! Thank you all for such a wonderful year! Have a fantastic summer!

05/16/2026

Students! This concert is Today! Check it out if you’re available at 3:00. Live stream link in the post.

The Louisville Youth Wind Symphony invites you to its Season Two culminating concert on Saturday, May 16, at 3 p.m. in Comstock Hall at the UofL School of Music. Full concert program includes Charles Belsterling’s “March of the Steel Men,” Percy Grainger’s “Children’s March,” David Biedenbender’s “Luminescence,” Omar Thomas’ “Of Our New Day Begun,” the World Premiere of Tyler Taylor’s “Memento No. 4: Fanfare for Amy,” Christopher M. Nelson’s “Wayfaring Stranger,” Charles Ives’ “Finale from Symphony No. 2,” and Omar Thomas’ “Come Sunday.”

The LYWS is led by Artistic Director, Amy Acklin, Associate Directors Kevin Callihan and Scott Cooksey, and a staff of over 30 music professionals. Members of the LYWS proudly represent 23 high schools throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana. We hope you can join us in person or online to see the work of these amazing students!

Here is the live stream link!
https://www.youtube.com/c/UofLSchoolofMusic/streams

05/06/2026

More photos from our great day yesterday!

05/06/2026

So proud of our Westport Warhawk Band students for going to State for the first time and earning a Distinguished Rating from all judges!!!

Thank you to all of our amazing parents and chaperones for making today possible—we truly couldn’t do it without you. What an incredible way to wrap up the school year!
We have one more performance next Thursday, May 14th at 7:00 PM—hope to see you there!

05/03/2026

Very excited to perform Tuesday for the Kentucky State Large Ensemble Performance Assessment! Wish us luck!
Westport Middle School

05/03/2026

Families! We will have a virtual meeting this Thursday (May 7th) at 6:00 PM! Please attend if interested in our June 2027 trip!

Check your emails for more information!
Westport Middle School

04/29/2026

See you there! We will begin after the 6th and 7th grade awards ceremony!

04/22/2026

Westport Band students were hard at work yesterday, proudly representing our program at the highest level! Huge congratulations to our 7th & 8th grade jazz performers and our 6th grade concert band students for their outstanding efforts.

And just like that, we’ve wrapped up our honor band cycle for the 2025–2026 school year—what an incredible season!

Westport Middle School

04/01/2026

What a week! It started last week with an incredible concert at Westport Middle and ended today with ALL groups earning Distinguished ratings at the 2026 KMEA Large Ensemble Performance Assessment!
So grateful for our amazing parents, chaperones, private lesson teachers, and the Westport faculty and staff—your guidance, flexibility, and support make all the difference.

Proud of these students and all their hard work!