KEARNEY – The Nebraska State Bandmasters Association state marching contest will be held in Kearney, Lincoln and Omaha on Saturday, Oct. 24. Between the three competitions, 85 High schools will compete. Kearney will be seeing 28 bands compete at Kearney High School and an exhibition from UNK’s Pride of the Plains Marching Band.
The Kearney High School band director, Nathan Lefeber, compared the competition to state competitions in athletic sports.
“Students have been working since the middle of the summertime preparing their marching band shows,” Lefeber said. “We do it for halftime at football games but then there’s also marching band competitions that happen throughout October. This is the final marching band competition it’s our state event, so to speak, for marching bands.”…