The District 202 students will be part of the 79th annual McDonald's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The Plainfield North High School band will march on State Street during the 2012 McDonald's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Chicago. PNHS Director of Bands Steven Pyter said the Marching Tigers submitted an application plus photos, videos and a list of accomplishments in their bid to be part of the parade last spring. The approximately 150 students learned they'd been accepted in August. "The band has quickly earned a reputation for excellence in the past few years," Pyter said. "This year the band received top honors as Grand Champion of the Downers Grove South Music Bowl, earned second Place in Class 4A at the State of Illinois Invitational (ISU), and most notably made their third consecutive appearance as a State of Illinois Invitational …
The event marks the first time the band has been given a national forum; the televised parade is expected to be viewed by about 75 million.
The Plainfield East High School marching band will step off down State Street on Thanksgiving in the school's first-ever national parade. The 95-member band will perform a piece called, "An American Christmas," which combines "Stars and Stripes Forever" with a variety of Christmas songs as it marches through downtown Chicago in the 77th McDonald's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade, which is expected to be seen by millions of viewers both live and on TV, will take place between 8 and 11 a.m. Thursday and aired on WGN-TV (Channel 9). The parade travels on State Street from Congress Parkway to Randolph Street and will be broadcast to about 75 million households. Band members started familiarizing themselves with the music back at marching …
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