As one of the most mainstream opportunities to watch great marching bands, the 2018 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has a lineup worth paying attention to! Twelve marching bands will be featured in this year's parade on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 22.

Grab your fanny packs, it's time for the 2019 drum corps audition season!

Drum Corps International released their schedule for the 2019 DCI Summer Tour this morning, just days after the door swings closed on a fantastic season of high school marching band in Bands of America. The last spectators are still leaving Lucas Oil Stadium as we speak—pretty sure the security guards are STILL asking for the last Carmel parents to stop taking pictures.

Thought we were done? Nope! One more event coming to you for the fall marching band season, possibly the last state championships in the country--Florida! They don't have to experience the snow and sub-freezing temperatures like the rest of us.

Rewatch the 2018 BOA Grand National Championship finalist bands in order of how they finished. 

It's been over 4 months since bands reported for summer band camps across the country. After grueling rehearsals, long road trips, and countless repetitions, the culmination for the nation's best high school marching bands reached its peak inside Lucas Oil Stadium. 

It's hard to describe in words what has happened in Lucas Oil Stadium over the past three days. The 2018 Bands of America Grand National Championships have delivered on all of the pageantry, artistry, and performance that you could ever want from some of the best high school marching bands in the world.

Well, we've made it folks. The 2018 Bands of America Grand National Championship finals have come and gone. 108 bands were narrowed down to just the top 12, and holy cow were they good.

This year, we wanted to take a closer look at some of the band programs who would be in our sights all season long. Through interviews with directors and designers, we get a look behind-the-curtain of some of the best band programs in the country.

To say that the 2018 Bands of America season has been impressive is probably the understatement of the year. I always expect the top drum and bugle corps of the world to come out with something groundbreaking by way of marching arts show design, but this year's BOA season has topped even DCI for me.