Instrumentalists who enjoy marching to the beat, the Ranger Band represents the college at athletic and community events and provides scholarships to eligible students. If instrumental music is more your style, the Symphonic Winds and Jazz Bands feature contemporary and traditional styles of music from various genres. Public performances are given in the Fine Arts Auditorium each fall and spring. Participation in any of these groups is by audition and open only to full-time students.
Performance Groups
Ranger Band
With over one hundred members the Northwest Ranger Marching Band performs during the fall semester each year at all home and select away Ranger Football games. The band hosts and performs at an area Marching Festival (the Northwest Classic) and at select parades and other community events. The bands purpose is to provide color and atmosphere at athletic and community events, and to promote and enhance the dignity and reputation of the College. The band is open to any regularly enrolled student by audition and scholarships are available to qualified students. The Rangerettes, the bands dance line, performs with the band on all occasions.
Links
band handbook | uniform order form
The Symphonic Winds is a large group which performs some of the finest concert literature in three or more on-campus public 
performances each year.
The ensemble is made up of students from many academic and career-technical areas of studies and provides each member an understanding and enjoyment of wind band literature through rehearsal and performance. Membership is by audition only.
Instrumental Ensembles
Northwest offers performance opportunities in a number of small instrumental ensembles. The Percussion Ensemble, Steel Band, Brass Ensemble and Woodwind Ensemble perform at concerts of the larger Northwest concert ensemble, both instrumental and vocal. These ensembles may also perform at other on and off-campus events.
Jazz Band
The Northwest Jazz program has developed a reputation for excellence in northwest Mississippi through performances on campus and at selected community events throughout the Northwest district.
The schools’ three ensembles (the Northwest Jazz Band, the Lab Band and the Dixieland Band) perform jazz literature in all jazz idioms. Through the program students learn to understand and appreciate this American art form through study, rehearsal, listening and performance. Memberships for the groups are by audition only and open to any regularly enrolled student.
Pep Band
You can find the Mighty Ranger Pep Band at all home Ranger basketball games keeping the stands and team excited in between plays.
The Rangerettes are the dance team for Northwest Mississippi Community College. This talented group performs with the Ranger Band at all home and a few away football games during the fall semester. In addition, the Rangerettes perform at halftime of the home basketball games for the fall semester and in the Senatobia Christmas Parade. Click here for more details.
Scholarships
Band scholarships are available for the Ranger Marching Band, Jazz Band, Northwest Symphonic Band and the Mighty Ranger Pep Band. Any incoming student may audition, and scholarships range from tuition to tuition, room and board. Students must perform scales or rudiments and a short etude of about one to two minutes in length. Students must also submit a recommendation from their high school band instructor. There is no limitation on the number of scholarships available. For more information, contact John Ungurait, director of Bands, at (662) 562-3335 or e-mail jbungurait@northwestms.edu or Kenneth Ortlepp, assistant director of bands/Ranger Band director, at kortlepp@northwestms.edu or (662) 562-3336.
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