Congratulations to all of the students, parents and educators in the 25 outstanding "Bands of Excellence" who helped make the Fifth Annual Harvest Marching Band Festival a big success!
Special Note: Due to a tabulation error discovered, investigated, verified and then shared with band directors on October 19, 2005 the results of Finals Competition have been corrected from those announced on Saturday night.
Congratulations to Kamiak High School as Sweepstakes Winners of the 2005 Harvest Marching Band Festival!
Final Awards Listing
See you next year on Saturday, October 21, 2006!
Zaepfel Stadium in Yakima, Washington
The purposes of the Harvest Marching Band Festival are:
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To showcase the finest High School Marching Bands in the Northwest
- To provide Bands and Band Directors with the highest quality judging and performance feedback
- To provide the citizens of Central Washington an opportunity to see the best of today's youth perform at the highest levels
- To provide the city of Yakima with an economic stimulus
- To support the Band programs of both Davis and Eisenhower High Schools
A few of the features that make the Harvest Band Festival special for Marching Bands:
- Lined and Lighted Practice Fields.
- Music General Effect, Marching General Effect and Auxiliary judges use video cameras to record comments with visual references.
- Results announced within ten minutes (five minutes in 2004!!) of the completion of preliminary competition.
- Outstanding Trophies!
- Judging Review Sheets after Preliminaries and Finals that include the score sub-sections of each of the eight judging categories.
- Drum Majors judged by specialist, not by a judge of another category doing "double-duty"
- Sunshine Guaranteed! (OK, OK - probable. But we can hope can't we?)
- It has never rained during a Harvest Marching Band Festival!