 The Appalachian Wireless Holiday Sale is going on now. Till the end of the year, visit us in store or reserve online for an unbelievable sale on the hottest devices. We know what you want for the holidays because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. On Saturday, December 10th, five Pikeville High School band students will be making their way to the second round of Kentucky Allstate Band auditions. This round of auditions will take place in Elizabeth Town. Pikeville band director Jenny Collins comments on her students' accomplishments. So here at Pikeville Independent, we have five students that made it through the first round of Allstate auditions and they're going to be going to John Harden High School, which is out in Elizabeth Town, for the second round this upcoming Saturday. We have an Oboe student, a Flute student, a Clarinet student, a Tuba student and a Bass Clarinet student. So I'm very excited about the number of students that made it through and they're going to get a chance to go on to Allstate Band. We have been preparing, we're doing lessons and weekly sessions, trying to get ready and listening to recordings and listening to other people play the music and everything we can do to be prepared, practicing sight reading and scales and all the things that they need for this audition to be successful. The students have been preparing nonstop for this opportunity. Private lessons and daily practices are helping them get closer to reaching their goals. I've been about two hour practices a day on the music. I do like every scale as a warm-up and stuff and then I practice the music. I just practice the music every day. I don't know how long. I've had some very nice lessons with a lot of brass instructors be it, you know, they come here, we go there for them, but I've had some very nice lessons that have helped me a lot, especially with the faster piece. I had a trumpet player that helped me a ton with working my fingers with the faster piece. On my faster piece I was told to go like really slow at first so I can get the hang of it with my fingers. I had one private lesson and it was over at a university, so that was very helpful. It's definitely very nerve-wracking, but once you get over it, you realize you can do it. It's not that bad because everyone's in your shape there and was also nervous about it. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Colm.