BHS Golden Tornado Band !

Photo: Butler Eagle

Catholic Daughters of America - Marching Band

Parade 1958

Photo: Pat Gallagher

BHS Golden Tornado Band ~ 2019

Photo: Butler Eagle

BHS Band ~

Band practice in the street, November 1944

Thanks: Barb Bailey

Catholic Daughters of America ~

State Champions 1973
Thanks: Celia Snodgrass

Glenn Crytzer ~ BHS '99

Glenn Crytzer is guitarist and composer. His first full orchestral piece “Nocturne Fantasy” was performed in 2005. His Blue Rhythm Band is a 13 piece dance band which focuses on the music of the late 1920′s through the early 1940′s. and his Syncopators are a jazz band dedicated to the popular music of the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s.

His latest release for Christmas.

Norman Saleet ~ Musician

Songwriter, guitarist and actor

Norman Saleet

was born in Butler. He began playing guitar at age 15. With his brother Michael Jr. he formed the band Good Family in 1973.

Tom Panei ~ Butler Artist BHS '87

Artwork of Tom Panei adorns our town. 

Thank you, Tom! 

Guy Travaglio ~ BHS '45

Guy Travaglio at Butler's Ethnic Festival

Thanks: Paul D. Johnston Jr.
How many of us danced to the strains of his music . . .

Bret Michaels ~

Born in Butler, Bret Michaels is a musician, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and reality television personality. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison.

Butler High School Band ~

Veteran's Day Parade
Photo: Robert Emigh

Catholic Daughters of America -

CDofA Marching Band
ca. 1945

Megan Peth ~ BHS '06 ~ A Girl We Remember

Megan Marie Peth 

†2006

Megan was a freshman at IUP, where she was studying nuclear medicine. She was a 2006 graduate of Butler High School and had been a member of the BHS Golden Tornado Marching Band. She also ran track at BHS. Megan was 19.

Her presence among us enriched so many lives.