The Daily Herald sent a photographer to the Chicagoland Marching Band Festival on Sept 21 and published 32 of the photographs he took of suburban marching bands, including Wheeling, Waubonsie Valley, Rolling Meadows, Warren Township, Elk Grove, and Hersey.
Class winners at the 46th annual CMBF at Wheeling High School, the region’s longest-running marching band festival, were John Hersey in Class 3A, Lincoln-Way Central in Class 2A, and Wheaton Warrenville South in Class 1A, with Hersey’s score being the highest overall.
The photo gallery is available, behind a paywall, here.
If anyone would like us to publish photos from any band at this or any other festival, please visit the festival page at the link in the first paragraph and click on the band for which you would like to upload photos. We’ll get those processed and posted as soon as we can.
In other news this weekend, the Bands of America organization has reported that the marching band from Lincoln-Way North High School in Frankfort won Class AAA and took all caption trophies (music performance, visual performance, and general effect) in the class at the regional competition at Fairmont High School in Kettering, Ohio.
Lincoln-Way North also achieved third place in the finals competition, while William Mason High School from Mason, Ohio, was named grand champion of the regional competition.
In a related story, the Daily Herald reports that the Hersey marcching band, whose show is based on the French Revolution with music from Les Misérables, has been thrilling audiences this year.
“Our home crowds have loved this show,” the paper quoted director Scott Casagrande as saying, referring to the show’s mock violence and excitement level. “This is the most attention I’ve had for a halftime show in 15 years.”