Mountain Grove Marching Festival

$10.00 - adults
$5.00 - students 5-17 and seniors 65+
Free - Children under 5

The 2nd annual Mountain Grove Marching Festival is scheduled for October 12th, 2024! 14 bands both big and small will be on campus performing their halftime shows in an educational and competitive environment. They will be judged on their musical artistry, visual impacts, and overall quality of the performance. The judging panel consists of current and retired directors of universities and high schools from both Missouri and Arkansas. The night will end with an awards ceremony celebrating all the bands but not before YOUR Panther Pride Band performs at 6:10!
The gate opens at 12:00 p.m. with the first band performing at 1:00 p.m. (a full schedule can be found below). Entry for the day is $10 per person, $5 for children 6 - 17 and seniors 65+, and free for children 5 and below.
Our concessions will be back in action (lots of compliments last year)! We will also have several food trucks available outside the gate for everyone to enjoy! Lastly, Studio thirteen Apparel will be set up selling merchandise for the festival! All money raised from the festival goes to the Panther Pride Band to use for future use!
In total, we expect there to be 1000+ band students on campus on the 12th! We hope to see you all for a great day of music making!

Hello Directors:

The Mountain Grove Panther Pride Band would like to invite you to attend the 2nd Annual Mountain Grove Marching Festival on October 12th, 2024. We have a fantastic facility with a state of the art turf field. This field show only festival will be a "one and done" format (no finals) and will be based on band size. Located in South Central Missouri, we hope to showcase bands from Missouri and Arkansas specifically, but all bands are welcome!

We want this festival to be a friendly learning experience for your students with lots of opportunities for "hardware". Every group will be given a video copy of their performance as well as feedback from the judges to use for future performances. We plan to offer lots of awards in captions including Music, Visual, General Effect, Percussion, Color Guard. There will also be awards for Outstanding Drum Major, outstanding soloist, rating awards for those who score a 1 or a 2 overall, and Grand Champion award.

Classification will be based on wind/percussion numbers as follows:
Class A 1-25
Class AA 26-50
Class AAA 51-75
Class AAAA 76-100
Class AAAAA 101+
If any class has a huge group of entries, we will split the class in two by band size.

The entry fee to register is $250 per band with September 10th being the deadline to register. Invoices will be sent out to you at a later time. If you would like to join us, please fill out the registration below, so you may be added to the festival roster. If there is some information you don't know yet, give your best estimate and we'll send out a follow up form closer to festival time. Otherwise, if you have any questions please contact Daniel Van Aalsburg (Director of Bands) at dvanaalsburg@mg.k12.mo.us or Brad Dietz (Assistant Director) at bdietz@mg.k12.mo.us. We hope to see you at this year's Mountain Grove Marching Festival this fall!

Registration Form: https://forms.gle/rWwzvmazpC5Giiap9

Sincerely,
Daniel Van Aalsburg
Director of Bands
Mountain Grove R-III Schools

12:00 p.m. - Gate opens
1:00 p.m. - Cabool High School Marching Band (A)
1:20 p.m. - Seymour Mo Tiger Pride Band (A)
1:40 p.m. - Thayer Bobcat Pride Band (AA-M)
2:00 p.m. - Kennett MO Bands (AA-M)
2:20 p.m. - Clever Bands (AA-M)
2:40 p.m. - Marionville Comet Pride Marching Band (AA-M)
3:00 p.m. - Ava Pride Band (AA-G)
3:20 p.m. - Salem HS Marching Blue (AA-G)
3:40 p.m. - Hillcrest HS Blue Wave Band (AA-G)
4:00 p.m. - JUDGE BREAK
4:20 p.m. - St. James HS Red Regiment Marching Band (AAA)
4:40 p.m. - Marshfield HS Marching Bluejay Band (AAAA)
5:00 p.m. - Logan-Rogersville HS Marching Band (AAAA)
5:20 p.m. - Parkview HS Viking Band (AAAAA)
5:40 p.m. - Poplar Bluff HS Sho-Me Marching Band (AAAAA)
6:10 p.m. - Mountain Grove Panther Pride Band (Exhibition)

Adjudicator Panel
Stever Warner - Director of Bands Jonesboro High School (retired)
Brady Massey - Director of Bands Pocahontas/Williams Baptist College (retired)
Scott Schneider - Retired Director of Bands Carl Junction
Lara Stamper - Color Guard instructor at Missouri Southern State University
Theresa Dixon - Director at Hartville/Lebanon (retired)
Zane Johnson - West Plains High School
Travis Slaughter - Current Drum Major for Arkansas State University