Kashmere Stage Band has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 19 episodes and was first played on 15 December 2013.

Kashmere High School is located in a predominantly black neighborhood known as Kashmere Gardens in Houston, Texas. Music teacher Conrad O. Johnson attended an Otis Redding concert in 1967 and was inspired to translate the style of the concert into a program he could sustain at the high school in order to create opportunities for his student musicians. The Kashmere Stage Band was born.

Professor Johnson was noted for revolutionizing the High School band experience by challenging his students to perform, record and…