Welcome to the 2024 Harvest Marching Band Festival!

Welcome to the 2024
Harvest Marching Band Festival

  

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Harvest Marching Band Festival


Note:

Enrollment is this year's festival is full.

Access one of the Band Directors on the "Contact Us" page if you have questions.

Enrollment in the 2025 Festival will be available in the spring.

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Judges, Finals Policy and Scoring

Map of Yakima with food locations indicated

Map of Eisenhower Campus including Contest Warmup/Performance Path

Map of Warm-Up Area "A" at Wilson Middle School

Map of Warm-Up Area "B" at Whitney Elementary School

    Divisions:
  • Novice Division for beginners
  • Placement of bands in divisions will be determined by October 1, 2024
  • Bands will be equally divided into four divisions based on size. For example, if there are 24 bands the largest six will be in AAAA Division, the next largest six bands in the AAA Divsion, the next largest in AA Division and the smallest six in the A Division.
Just a few features that make the Harvest Band Festival special:
  • Two lined, lighted almost full-size warm-up fields.
  • Digital recordings of judge's comments.
  • A website to facilitate communication - available 24/7!
  • Outstanding Trophies!
  • Twelve Bands selected for finals
  • Judging Review Sheets after Preliminaries and Finals that include the score sub-sections of each of the nine judging categories.
  • Artifical TURF!!!!! New Lighting!!! Enhanced Pit Areas!!!
  • Sunshine Guaranteed! (OK, OK - probably. But we can hope can't we?)

2024 at Harvest

2024 Preliminary Competition:

9:15 AM - 2:15 PM

Host Exhibition Performance (Eisenhower High School)

2:15 PM

Preliminary Awards Announced

2:35 PM

Finals Competition:

4:15 PM-8:00 PM

Host Exhibition Performance (A.C. Davis High School)

Retreat Ceremony - All Bands in Finals

8:20 PM

Final Awards Announced:

8:30 PM


A Typical Day at Harvest: (BUT NOT necessarily the schedule for this year.)

8:30 AMFirst Band on warm-up field
9:15 AMParticipating bands begin performing in Preliminary Competition
Preliminary Competition Schedule
2:15 PMPreliminary Competition is completed
2:15 PMHost Exhibition Performance
2:35 PMPreliminary Awards Ceremony - ALL PARTICIPATING BANDS are involved - Drum Majors should be in uniform on the track - Drum Majors should step forward and salute when school name announced - Finalists are announced and other awards presented.
2:50 PMLunch/Dinner break begins. Band Directors of finalist bands meet as announced.
4:00 PMPresentations of colors and National Anthem for Finals Competition
4:15 PMFirst of Twelve Bands perform in Finals competition.
8:00 PMFinals Competition is completed.
8:00 PMHost Exhibition Performance.
8:20 PMFinals Bands participate in formal retreat (bands march "through" each other on the track and take their place centered on a yard line) while the combined Davis/Eisenhower Drum Lines play.
8:30 PMAwards Ceremony - All finals bands (Drum Majors come forward to sideline) participate in awards.