If you're an old high-school band musician (I played flute and piccolo), or you like to keep up with some of Asheville's adventurers, check out Casey Blake's Asheville Citizen-Times blog. She's tagging along with the Asheville High School marching band as it prepares to play at the president's inauguration in Washington, D.C.

Their first D.C. performance: a concert at "at Northwestern High School, which happens to be the alma mater of Muppets creator Jim Henson. ..."