Nearly half of the students at a Lewisporte school are in the band [Video]

At one school in central Newfoundland, chances are more than decent that any given high school student is going to be in an upcoming band performance. 

That’s because at Lewisporte Collegiate, almost half of the students are in the school band — and it might be because of their band director.

Adam Baxter is the band director for students in Grade 7 and up in Lewisporte, and students who start a band with him in Grade 7 usually stick with him until they graduate. 

The school has 250 high school students, and 120 of them are in band. 

With that size of a band, Baxter cannot often teach the whole ensemble at once. Instead, he works with three groups of students whom he sees three to four times …