Trumpeter in wheelchair gets to march in formation, with help from her dad

[Omaha Steve]

MATT MILLER/THE WORLD-HERALD
Kevin Houston, a former band trumpeter, pushes daughter Eva through the formations at Westside High practice.

http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/grace-trumpeter-in-wheelchair-gets-to-march-in-formation-with/article_7e7f548b-4b0b-59a0-b3e1-4670d2afe29e.html

By Erin Grace Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 12:30 am | Updated: 12:51 pm, Tue Oct 27, 2015.

Before kickoff Friday at Westside High’s last home game of the season, the freshman marching band took the field.

Marching onto the turf at Phelps Field were 36 students. And one dad.

Kevin Houston didn’t play the trumpet, as he did for years at Burke, for the University of Nebraska at Omaha and later for a prestigious national drum and bugle corps. But he did march in perfect time — dress, right, dress; dress, left, dress — as he pushed a wheelchair bearing his trumpet-playing daughter, Eva.

Eva’s legs don’t work well enough for her to carry a trumpet and march. So during this band season, her father became her legs. And Eva not only got to play her heart out. She, too, got to march.

FULL story at link. Video: http://studio.omaha.com/Westside-High-marcher-rolls-through-formations-in-wheelchair-29849333?playlistId=14324

[Snobblevitch]

1. What a wonderful story.

I played trumpet in my high school band. As a 10th grade student, I was dead last, 26th chair.

[xmas74]

2. There was a young man in the drum line

at a competition whose father pushed him around. I've noticed him for two years now and not only does he do field show but indoor drum line and parade march.

[Omaha Steve]

3. Kick