The Marching Knights had another great day on October 2 at the annual Barry Apple Festival. Rain threatened, but as the parade stepped off, the sun came out and the wind backed off a bit and the competition was on!

A-C competed for a very large crowd on the downtown square of Barry as they performed the music of Cirque de Soliel

titled Incantations. This music has an Egyptian flare and has been a challenge to the students to learn. The piece is unique from the standpoint that the band is required to sing as they move down the street also. It is definitely something different!

The Marching Knights won their class, the drum major award, the percussion award and the color guard award as well as

the Grand Champion trophy. It was a great performance by the group and hopefully a warm up to the 2 remaining competitions left this season: Oct 16 - Quincy Octoberfest Parade and Oct 30 - Pickneyville Mardi Gras Parade.

Come out and support the Marching Knights and enjoy a little Illinois Fall color!

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Members of the Marching Knights include:

Banner Kelsey Handy & Lisa Jennings

Flag Corps

Danielle Bright, Lauren Pfaffe, Stacey Eskew, Krisy Sim-mons,

Tracy Mitchell, Madalyn Elder, Shelbi Elder, Kelsey Gardner & April Leinberger

Drum Majors

Morgan Wessel, Cali Edwards & Taylor Koch

Band Members Lindsay Allan, Maggie Allen, Kayla Anderson, Courtney Bed-

tka, Cerys Boston, Lindsey Cole, Daeriel DeGroot, Will Edge,

Val Escudero, Austin Fields, Shawn Force, Drew Hoffman, Tiffani Homer, Craig Houchin, Alli Jacobs, Grant Kelly,

Ty Kesselring, Breann Knapp, Jenny Lewis, Nate Mahoney, Hannah Miller, Sicely Nicholas, Joey Petefish, Haley Pfaffe,

Allyson Quick, Joseph Ratliff, Carmen Savage, Brandon Smith, Lane Wegs & Faith Widdows

Percussion

Carly Abbott, Chad Homer, Dalton Jones, Cody Miller, Zach Parrish, Sarah Pherigo, Robert Ratliff, Eric Stroich

The Marching Knights are under the direction of Kim

Webster.

The A-C Central Marching Knights kicked off their competition season in fine order

on September 24 & 25th. The band performed on Friday Sept 24th at the

annual Rushville Smiles Day Parade in downtown Rushville. The band finished 2nd place behind Liberty. Other bands in

competition that day were: PORTA, Beardstown, Payson Seymour,

Meredosia, Chambersburg, Camp Point, Lewistown and Sciota.

Saturday the 25th saw the band compete in Beardstown for the Fall Fun Festival.

Bands in competition that day were: PORTA, Western HS, VIT, Astoria & AC. The sun shown bright on the Marching

Knights as they won their class, and the overall competition. The Knight Drum Majors also wont the first annual Diann Hoagland Memorial Drum Major Trophy

for best drum majors in the parade. Congratulations to the Marching Knights

way to start the competition season!