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<\/a>Plymouth Marching Band performs their grand opener while judges walk around examining them intently. Photo provided by: Mrs. Goble<\/p><\/div>\n
By Anayeli Miranda<\/em><\/p>\n Thousands of notes are being played within minutes. \u00a0Everyone matters and without one person it can cause a disaster. There is no difference between freshmen or seniors because they all are required to be on the same level. \u00a0Marching Bands all around have this standard, and interestingly Plymouth High School was the host for 15 bands at the annual Harvest Festival.<\/p>\n The 13th annual \u00a0Harvest Festival\u2018s name was a mystery; therefore, Mr. Bryan Ames was kind enough to explain the name of the festival, \u201cThe Harvest Festival takes place right as fall begins and the trees begin to change colors. \u00a0\u00a0The name comes from the seasonal change.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0The season was kind enough to create a beautiful sunny day which brought in many on lookers that wanted to watch the bands. Mr. Ames claims \u201cThis year, the turnout for the event was amazing. \u00a0Several thousand people came to the competition and filled the stadium for many hours.\u201d Thus creating a bigger audience for the students performing for the \u00a0crowd.<\/p>\n All the bands do not know the school and could get lost. Mr. Ames fixed this problem by making sure that \u201cevery band will have a host and a tour guide to escort them around campus to get to their warm-up and stretching areas.\u201d Junior Traci Longanecker\u00a0 had the chance to be a tour guide. \u00a0\u00a0She \u00a0felt like she \u201cwas shaking the hands of a celebrity,\u201d when she \u00a0shook hands with the director of Western, the State Champion of Class C bands.<\/p>\n All students had to volunteer for the festival. Sophomore Hope Babcock was a rope puller, a person that ropes off the entrances to the bleachers when a band performs in order to make sure there is no one walking across the bleachers causing a disruption. \u00a0Working this job, she got the chance to watch some of the shows and she \u201creally enjoyed watching the different bands.\u201d \u00a0In particular she enjoyed the show \u201cAlice and Wonderland.\u201d \u00a0Aside from the other shows she herself was a performer for the Plymouth Marching Band as a color guard member. \u00a0Hope thinks \u201cIt is nice to have all of your friends and family there,\u201d \u00a0when performing in front of the home crowd.<\/p>\n This year is the last Harvest Festival for the seniors in the Plymouth Marching Band. Junior Jack Garrison, before the performance, \u00a0spoke a motivational speech that made the seniors \u00a0shed \u00a0some tears. Garrison thought \u201cthat was really cool.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Senior Victoria Fox expresses her feelings about this being her last performance on the Plymouth Football field, as part of the band after her performance. Fox \u00a0says that she \u201cwill remember how [she] felt coming off the field, and feeling so excited.\u201d<\/p>\n Agreeing with \u00a0Fox, junior Aiden Osman agrees that the performance was amazing. Osman talks about the crowd and how he \u00a0\u201cknew they would be pumped\u201d because the last band performance was \u00a0\u201cthe ones they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n The Harvest Festival was an interesting event that will forever be in many people\u2019s memories especially the seniors because it was their last performance. Sophomore Wesley Seidelmann comments that he will remember \u201ceveryone working together.\u201d It was a night to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Anayeli Miranda Thousands of notes are being played within minutes. \u00a0Everyone matters and without one person it can cause a disaster. There is no difference between freshmen or seniors because they all are required to be on the … Continue reading