Music Department
Music Department
High School Music Directors:
Band: Mr. Brett Welly
Choral: Miss Celia DeTray
Important Dates:
Band Camp:
August 4-8, 2025 @8:30am-4:30pm
Marching Band Parent Preview Night:
August 8, 2025 @6:30pm
Patriotic Football Game Combined Band/Choir Performance:
Friday, September 26, 2025 @7:00pm
Apple Festival Parade:
Saturday, October 11, 2025 @2:00pm (Oak Harbor, Ohio)
Sounds of the Stadium Concert:
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 @7:00pm
LHS Fall Play:
Friday, November 14, 2025 @7:00pm
Saturday, November 15, 2025 @2:00pm & @7:00pm
Sounds of the Season Winter Concert:
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 @7:00pm
Lakota Local Schools Winter Sing-Along:
Friday, December 19, 2025 @6:00pm
High School Solo & Ensemble:
Saturday, January 17, 2026 @All Day (Genoa, Ohio)
High School Honors Festival Performance:
Saturday, January 24, 2026 @7:00pm (Port Clinton, Ohio)
High School D2 Large Group Preview Concert:
Thursday, February 26, 2026 @7:00pm
High School D2 Large Group Contest:
Friday/Saturday, March 6/7, 2026 @TBA (Oak Harbor, Ohio)
Nashville Trip:
Thursday-Saturday, March 12-14, 2026 (Nashville, Tennessee)
Fine Arts Festival:
Friday-Saturday, May 15-16, 2026 @TBA
Music Awards Banquet:
Thursday, May 21, 2026 @6:00pm
Memorial Day Parade:
Monday, May 25, 2026
Senior Awards Ceremony/Graduation Rehearsal:
Thursday, May 28, 2026 @6:00pm
2026 Graduation Ceremony:
Sunday, May 31, 2026 @2:00pm
2026 Nashville Trip:
We are VERY excited to travel to Nashville, Tennessee this spring for our bi-annual music department trip! Below is information regarding our trip. Please contact the Directors for further information.
Date: March 12th-14th, 2026
2025 Fall Play Information:
We are excited to announce that Lakota Local Schools is performing a Fall play this year! This Fall Play is a series of 3 mini comedy plays sure to make you laugh! We are performing "Check Please", "How to Get Away with a Murder Mystery", and "The Internet is a Distract- Oh Look a Kitten".
Synopsis:
Check Please: Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse -- until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel?
How to Get Away with a Murder Mystery: Five mysterious color-coded guests. A mansion. A murder. Can the killer get away with it? And how will the sleuths bring them to justice? A handy guide for how to escape the law when you just happen to be a prime suspect of a mysterious murder. Told in vignettes in a style similar to 10 Ways To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse, this show hilariously skewers the tropes of the murder mystery: an airtight alibi, a long-winded monologue by a detective with an accent, an impossibly complicated Rube Goldberg murder device? Check, check, and check!
The Internet is a Distract- Oh Look a Kitten: Micah only has twenty minutes to finish her paper on The Great Gatsby. She just needs to check a few facts on the internet first. Unfortunately, the web is a nefariously wacky place where boxing cats, Facebook lurkers, and pig-throwing games threaten to take over Micah's schoolwork, or worse. Will she finish her paper and escape with her life before the school bell rings? A high-octane comedy that explores the rabbit hole of distraction we all go down every time we go online.
Show Dates: Friday, November 14, 2025 @7:00pm and Saturday, November 15, 2025 @2:00pm & @7:00pm.
Ticket Prices: TBA
Contact: For more information, please contact the Director, Miss DeTray, at cdetray@lakotaschools.org.
Music Booster Meetings:
We’d love to have your input in the planning for our music kids! Meetings are on the last Monday of each month at 6:30 PM at Lakota Local Schools.
2025-2026 Music Leadership
Choral:
2025 Prestigious Music Awards:
John Philip Sousa Award Recipient:
Hannah Stahl, 2025 Graduate
National Choral Award Recipient:
Cash Allen, 2025 Graduate
Instrumental Department Award Recipient:
Landon Blausey, 2025 Graduate
Choral Department Award Recipient:
Ashtyn Linkey, 2025 Graduate
Lakota Fight Song
On, on Lakota High
Write Raiders across the sky
We’ll win us a victory
And not heed any plea
Go! Go! Go!
Go team, and really shine
Lakota, you’re doing fine
Let’s win team, let’s
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Raiders will win tonight!
(Repeat)
Team Rah! Team Rah!
Rah, Rah, Team!
Yea, Team,
Rah!!!
Lakota Alma Mater
Friends of Lakota
Lift your hearts in singing
Praise to the school we love,
and to those we know here.
Knowledge and fellowship
Duty, joy, and loyalty
These are Lakota High!!!