This page is where you will find the latest important news and announcements about our outstanding school band, the Felix Cook Stallion Band of Houston, Texas!
On Friday, May 31, 2013, 31 of our band students in grades 2-5 attended the West Briar Middle School Solo & Ensemble Festival. And ALL THIRTY-ONE OF OUR BAND STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED WON FIRST-DIVISION RATINGS AND WON MEDALS! WOO-HOO!!! Congratulations to these band students!!!
ALSO: Any band students who still have band instruments checked out to them that belong to the school should check these instruments in to Mr. Dunn on Monday, June 3rd, 2013. Students who have lost any accessories to these instruments will need to pay to replace them. Students who have any damage to these school instruments will need to pay a $15 insurance deductible for each incident of damage incurred while the instrument was checked out to them.
BAND STUDENTS: HAVE A GREAT SUMMER, AND KEEP ON PRACTICING, AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
Felix Cook Stallion Band 
FELIX COOK BAND GETS RAVE REVIEWS from VH1! –February 14, 2012
Today our school was visited by two very special guests, Ms. Jaclyn Shea, Program Manager of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, and Mr. Walter Smith, Houston I.S.D. Fine Arts Coordinator. Our school has received a grant in support of our band program from the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, and representatives from VH1 like to visit our school (and other schools whose band programs they have supported) each year to see how our band program is doing.
After these two guests observed our 5th grade band class in action, Ms. Shea told our band students that she travels to many elementary schools around the country, and has visited over 200 elementary schools and listened to their bands and that our Felix Cook band is the best 5th-grade band that she has ever heard! This is quite a compliment, and we are proud of all of our band students.
I told Ms. Shea that our band students in the other grades (4, 3, & 2) are also very impressive, accomplished young musicians. Ms. Shea encouraged our 5th grade band students to stay in band and practice hard so that one day they can audition on their instrument for a college band and get a scholarship to go to college for free like she did.
I am very proud of our band students. Thank you Mr. Dunn for all that you do to teach, train, motivate and excite our students. Keep up the great work!!
Laquetta Kennedy, Principal
Thank you, Ms. Kennedy, for your strong support of our band program!
Randy Dunn, band director (a.k.a. “cookband”)