When the 190 members of the Greenwood High School marching band take to the football field this season, they will bring more than instruments and colorful flags. Theyll bring a cave and trolls, and create a saga, said Brian Morrison, band director at the high school which last year boasted the second-largest band in the state, after Lafayette High School in Lexington. Our show is kind of a story, more so than weve ever done before, Morrison said. The show features Scandinavian music and students dressed in 13-foot-high troll costumes. The trolls will be led by a student costumed as a 16-foot-tall troll king, while band members play music including In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg. Theyre kind of like giant puppets attached to your body, Morrison said of the troll costumes created by parents of band members. While the show will be dramatic, as students emerge from the cave onto a field where the sun is drowned out by fake clouds, it will also be educational, Morrison said. A few years ago, I was kind of caught up in competition and not worrying about the crowd, at football games, he said. But in the past few years, I figured Im a music educator and I should try to educate the audience. Even though a lot of the people dont know the names (of the songs the band will play this season) theyll recognize the tunes. Bowling Green High Schools 63-member marching band may not have such a dramatic show lined up, but they plan to please a crowd with their classic rock theme. We dont want them to go out and buy hot dogs when were playing, said band director Kevin Briley. Tunes including Simon and Garfunkels Sounds of Silence and the Moody Blues Tuesday Afternoon should keep the crowd listening in the stands. And its not as hard for me to sell it to the kids, Briley said of the band members who, like other band students from across Warren County, have been battling scorching temperatures while preparing for games. Briley said the high temperatures have been tough to deal with, but added, our band booster president is (WBKO-13 weather man) Chris Allen, and were pressing him for better weather. To battle the heat, Bowling Greens band will for the first few performances of the football season be wearing new t-shirts that have been designed, by a band parent, based on a star-covered Moody Blues album cover. Warren East High School band members will also have a new look this fall. According to band director Marty Sharer, students Friday received new uniforms, which they wore during Friday nights football game against Monroe County. The modern-looking black pants with Warren East Blue Jackets may not be flashy, but they wont detract from what band director Marty Sharer calls a jazzy show by the 65-member group. The entertainment, themed Songs of the South, will feature Georgia on My Mind, Sweet Georgia Brown, Amazing Grace and the spiritual from the movie The Color Purple, Gods Trying to Tell You Something. The songs are part of a package arranged by former Bowling Green High School band director Brant Kerrick, who is now band director at University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, and arranges music for marching bands. We were looking for something jazzy, so I called him up and he said, I have this, Sharer said. Warren Central High Schools 70-member marching band was looking for something jazzy, too, when they picked out the new uniforms they will don this year. The solid navy coats, with a holographic sash, will be right at home with the white pants and shoes and the silver helmets with white plumes that band members will wear when they take to the field. I think its going to be really sharp band director David Graham said. Graham said the music the band plays will be sharp as well. Our show music is A Russian Celebration, Graham said of the theme. Color guard members will carry flags based on the Russian flag while musicians play pieces including Fire of Eternal Glory by Dimitri Shostacovich. The finale will be the shows big moment, Graham said. Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed will be an exciting end to the show. … Theyll hear some chimes and everything builds to a big climax, he said.