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most band ensembles in the district, boasting 10 organized groups. The school's marching band is known as the "Raven Pride
Marching Band" and has performed at football, basketball, and volleyball games as well as in school spirit assemblies. Their field shows have been "Sir Elton John" (2013), "The Sound Of Music" (2014), "Let Freedom Ring" (2015) which won the Neowollah Marching Festival, "Turandot" (2016) which earned them the Grand Champions title at the 2016 Heart of America Marching Festival, "The Raven" (2017), "From One... Many" (2018), which won the Grand Champion title at the 2018 UCM Festival of Champions, "Pulse" (2019), "Warrior" (2020 & 2021), and "Into the Starry Night" (2022), winning the Grand Champion title at the 2022 Shawnee Mission High School Marching Band Invitational. In November 2014, the marching band traveled to New York City and marched in the annual Veteran's Day Parade. In May 2018, the Raven Pride Marching Band represented Kansas in the national Memorial Day Parade in Washington D.C.. The band most recently traveled to Orlando, Fl, where they performed at Walt Disney World in the 50th anniversary parade. As of 2016, they are the largest band in the state of Kansas. Olathe Northwest also has a very successful Jazz program. The four jazz ensembles are: Raven Jazz I, II, III, and IV (Lab). Olathe Northwest has more jazz ensembles than any school in the area. Raven Jazz I won the "Basically Basie" Competition at KCKCC in 2015, 2017, and 2018. They also traveled to the 2018 KMEA All-State Convention in Wichita, Kansas; where they performed for the first time in school history. The Raven Jazz I ensemble also qualified as a finalist in the 2021 Essentially Ellington competition by Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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