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Marching Band Gears Up For London's New Year's Day Parade
River Ridge High School will take part in the event, which has twice the number of performers as the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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River Ridge High School’s marching band on Friday will showcase its talent on the international stage.
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The band will participate in the 2016 London New Year’s Day Parade, which will get underway at noon GMT (7 a.m. EST).
- Don’t miss: the parade will be live-streamed on the event’s website.
The televised parade, which has twice the number of performers as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, is watched by viewers around the world, according to organizers. The 2016 event will be the 30th year of the parade.
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The school in March 2014 learned it was selected for the honor, when parade officials, including International Goodwill Ambassador Duncan Sandys, a former lord mayor of Westminster, visited to surprise students and the community with the news.
Earlier this year, the Woodstock High School marching band flew to Ireland to take part in that country’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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Photo: band members were visited earlier this year by a crew from BBC, who traveled across the pond to Woodstock to gather footage of the band for programming that promotes the parade. Credit: Cherokee County School District
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