CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Representatives from the London New Year’s Day Parade made the trip across the pond to Charlottesville on Monday to personally invite the Charlottesville High School Marching Band to perform in the 2028 parade.
The annual event, which began in 1987, features more than 8,000 performers from around the world every year and is attended by 500,000 spectators. This will mark the second time the CHS Marching Band has performed in the event, as the Black Knights first appeared in the 2018 event.
“This is my favorite event that we’ll get to do,” Director of Bands Jason Hackworth said afterward. “And the chance to take some of our students outside of Charlottesville, outside of Virginia, really outside of the country to see something that they might not ever get a chance to see really means a lot to me and giving them that opportunity is really great.”…