Each year, band directors from the nine Metro East schools nominate students to perform in the annual All-Conference Honor Band Festival. This year, 12 Simley High School band students were selected for the All-Conference Jazz Band and the All-Conference Concert Band:
Concert Band
Carter Bollmann
Emma Deyo
Curtis Hance
Cecelia Jorde
Eryn McVay
Maya Merritt
Marisa Modica
Jesiah Sanchez
Daniel Williams
Phil Workman
Jazz Band
Will Hackerson
Taylor Riess
Students rehearsed challenging pieces alongside the rest of the best musicians in the conference for seven hours. Then on January 13, Simley students performed with Hastings, Henry Sibley, Hill-Murray, Mahtomedi, North St. Paul, South St. Paul, St. Thomas Academy, and Tartan high school students for the festival.