Thirteen Marching Bands Take the Field for
Delmarvacade Oct. 17
Lights. Music. Marching! One of the most exciting and uplifting nights of the marching band season is coming up Saturday, Oct. 17, when Parkside High School and the Parkside Band Boosters present the 2015 Delmarvacade of Bands at Wicomico County Stadium.
Thirteen high school marching bands from throughout the region will fill Wicomico County Stadium that night with the sights and sounds of their field show as bands tune up for the impending championship events.
Between bands, parents, and spectators, the Delmarvacade is expected to draw thousands of people to the stadium. Bands will compete starting at 5:30 p.m., with each band performing the kind of field show people are accustomed to seeing at halftime of football games. Each performance will last seven to 12 minutes, and a new band will take the field about every 15 minutes.
Bands will compete in four categories, depending on the number of instrumentalists in the band. Parkside High (8:45 p.m.) and James M. Bennett High (8:15 p.m.) are in Group 3-O, and Wicomico is in Group 2-A (6:15 p.m.). (Parkside, as host, will perform in exhibition.) There will be an awards ceremony at the end of the night.
The schedule is posted here: http://windi.njatob.org/share/seasons/87c6033e-aaf3-11e4-93da-000c297990a9/competitions/601cbe5e-abbb-11e4-86c3-000c297990a9The event will be adjudicated by professional judges of the National Judges Association. Bands will be judged on every aspect of their field show, including both musical and visual elements, individual and group elements, as well as the overall general effect of the show. Each band will receive a score based on a 100-point scale, and a trophy.
Marching bands often stay all evening, even after they have competed. "They support each other, even though they are rivals," says Gary Beauchamp, supervisor of fine and performing arts for Wicomico schools and the founder of the event in 1977. Students know they are competing not just against each other, but against their own previous performances, trying to make this one just a little bit better.
Admission to Delmarvacade of Bands is $7. A program detailing the participants, with a score sheet to keep track of how the bands are doing, is $5. The Parkside Band Boosters will donate $1 from each program sold to Women Supporting Women of Salisbury.
For information call Kevin Zaczkiewicz, Parkside High School band director, at 410-677-5161.
1 comment:
Marching bands are so cool to see, especially for us, who can't chew gum and walk at the same time.
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