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The Oregon Marching Band takes the field at Autzen Stadium during halftime of a home football game to perform its latest show
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The Oregon Marching Band will host Festival of Bands, a high school
marching band competition, at Autzen Stadium on Saturday
By Monica Hande
Oregon Daily Emerald
They play a little of everything:
rock, jazz, even movie soundtracks.
But they’re not an ordinary cover
band - they’re the Oregon Marching
Band.
Saturday, the band will host the
Festival of Bands, a high school
marching band competition, at
Autzen Stadium. At least 30 bands
from throughout the Northwest will
compete, and Oregon will perform
two exhibitions.
Todd Zimbelman, OMB director,
encourages people who are not in
volved in marching band to show
up and experience what the per
formances have to offer.
“Marching band competitions are
truly the ‘sport of the arts,’” Zimbel
man said. “If the general public
likes competition, drama, live per
formances, emotional responses
and theatrical staging, then the gen
eral public would love the Festival
ofBands.”
Carolyn Stock, festival coordina
tor and graduate music perform
ance student, agreed that it doesn’t
take an understanding of marching
band to appreciate what it offers.
“It would be great for families. It
would be great for University stu
dents,” she said.
Aside from entertainment, Stock
said the festival is the OMB’s largest
fundraiser of the year and a major
recruiting opportunity.
Brady Umeda, captain of the col
orguard, which is a strictly visual el
ement of the band, said the festival
“is a chance to show high school
kids that they can continue this ac
tivity into college. ”
However, Stock said, even if high
school students aren’t interested in
pursuing marching band, Festival of
Bands is a good recruitment tool for
the University in general.
But recruitment is not the only
way the festival impacts high
school students. It’s a chance for
them to perform in Autzen Stadi
um and to show off to fellow stu
dents from other schools, said
Tyson Wooters, OMB co-drum ma
jor and a junior music education
major.
The Festival of Bands is the
Northwest Marching Band Circuit’s
championship competition. High
school bands have dedicated a lot
of time to their performances; the
festival is a chance for them to dis
play the final product of all their
hard work, Wooters said, and
maybe even win an award.
But high school bands aren’t the
only performers who are excited
about the festival. It’s just as big of a
performance for the Oregon band,
Stock said.
“There’s a certain rush that
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