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Post by babette2009 on Jan 16, 2009 16:26:41 GMT -5
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?
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Post by clarinetlover on Jan 16, 2009 16:44:04 GMT -5
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
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Post by mandadm on Jan 16, 2009 20:31:01 GMT -5
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
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Post by Lprdgecko on Jan 16, 2009 22:07:52 GMT -5
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)
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Post by babette2009 on Jan 17, 2009 16:14:30 GMT -5
Dang. Maybe we are the parade capital of the universe! lol
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Post by NinjaBaker on Jan 18, 2009 11:26:07 GMT -5
We march in one parade a year. The Harrisonburg Holiday Parade.
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Post by freshmanflute on Jan 18, 2009 21:19:56 GMT -5
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
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Post by zirbo on Jan 18, 2009 21:23:21 GMT -5
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
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Post by brassqueen1988 on Jan 21, 2009 13:06:00 GMT -5
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.
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Post by KUguardgrl13 on Jan 22, 2009 16:41:02 GMT -5
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)
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Post by hansel2011 on Jan 22, 2009 19:59:57 GMT -5
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!!
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