The energy coming from the Unionville High School music room Thursday night came from members of the Unionville Marching Band Boosters getting organized to host their first cavalcade.
A cavalcade is a marching band competition – a two-hour halftime show, as some call them. And while the school’s band has taken part in them before – and took first place in a state competition in Harrisburg last year – this October the school be host for the first time in cavalcade entitled March on the Brandywine.
About a dozen schools are lined up to take part in the Oct. 17 event. Most are local but one school coming from Fredricksburg, Va.
Much of the business Thursday night dealt with the need to find sponsors for the cavalcade and sell ads for the program. But cavalcade co-chairs Nancy Agnew and RaeLynn Bond got to announce the winner of the program cover contest.
That honor went to Meg Boeni, a ninth-grader from East Marlborough Township. Her winning entry will be on the cavalcade’s Web site www.marchonthebrandywine.com. The site is not yet operative.
The boosters are a parent group whose mission is to support the marching band through fund-raising, providing support for equipment and maintaining uniforms.
The boosters will also be chaperoning the band camp coming up in August for a week at Chadds Ford Elementary School and two days at Unionville High.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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