Annual Parades

[babette2009]

We have a new director this year and she is amazed about the number of parades our band does. She called it the "Parade Capital of the Universe". I never thought about it as being that many though, but then agian, I don't know how many other places do.

We do 6 parades.
They are:
1. FireAnt Festival (yes, my town celebrates stupid ants that hurt when they bite you. It's because we don't have anything else to do other than go to Wal-Mart. Seriously.)

2.Stagecoach Days (It used to be celebrated by having a weekend in the old style. Now, it's just kinda there.)

3. Christmas (Self-explainitory)

4. Wiley College Homecoming (Wiley College is a historically black college in my town. For some reason, we march in their Homecoming parade every year even though they always screw us over.)

5. Martin Luther King (We have a parade to celebrate MLK's birthday. It's one of those parades that no one ever actually watches.)

6. Cinco De Mayo (Also, kinda self-explaintory. Also, another one that no one watches.)


So, how many parades a year does your band do? What are the for?

[clarinetlover]

We do 4.

Christmas Parade in town A
Christmas Parade in town B
Christmas Parade in town C
and Veteran's day Parade in town A

[mandadm]

Wow, that is craziness! My band only does 1 parade, The Veterans Day Parade. Also known as the largest Veterans Day Parade on the west side of the Mississippi! =D

[Lprdgecko]

We usually do 3, but this year we did 4. I voted for 3 though.

1. 4th of July parade
2. Veteran's day parade
3. Christmas parade (usually one, but this year we did 2)

[babette2009]

Dang. Maybe we are the parade capital of the universe! lol

[NinjaBaker]

We march in one parade a year.
The Harrisonburg Holiday Parade.

[freshmanflute]

we usually have 2

1. Memorial day.
2. John Basilone Parade. It's an annual parade that my town has to celebrate John Basilone who was apparently a great hero in WWII

[zirbo]

We only do 2.
One is for the anniversary of a neighboring city, it's the WORST parade EVER. It's super long, and really hot, and we look/sound really bad since it's our first time that season in uniform.
The other is the Holiday parade, which we own

[brassqueen1988]

We did a Halloween parade this year, but I couldn't go to it due to a prior commitment. We were scheduled to do a Christmas parade we did last year, but we were cut from the parade for some unknown reason. Last year we did a Veterans day parade, so we may do that one as well.

[KUguardgrl13]

we do one:

Minnesota State Fair Parade

my bro's hs band marched a lot of parades

local amusement park fall parade
labor day parade
township anniversary parade
columbus day parade
halloween parade
veteran's day parade
bowl game or disney if there's a trip planned
2009 inauguration parade
St. Patrick's Day parade (sometimes)

[hansel2011]

No one likes parades in our band. We will do Memorial Day and Reds opening day parade. We used to do the tobacco festival and another one but the two that I listed above are the only ones we do.

Tobacco Festival...remember this is good old Mount Orab Ohio!!