Marching bands from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas will spend Saturday, Oct. 10, at Prosper ISD's Children's Health Stadium for the Bands of America North Texas Regional Championship.
Twenty-eight high school bands are on the preliminary schedule posted by Music for All, the nonprofit that runs Bands of America, which updated its band list Thursday. Performances begin at 8 a.m. with Lake Dallas High School and run about every 15 minutes, with breaks, until Marcus High School closes prelims at 4 p.m.
Two Prosper schools are in the field. Walnut Grove High School performs at 1:15 p.m., and Prosper High School at 3 p.m.
Other area bands include Rock Hill at 8:45 a.m., McKinney's Emerson at 9 a.m., Frisco's Lebanon Trail at 9:30 a.m. and Liberty at 10:30 a.m., Melissa at 8:15 a.m., McKinney High at 1:30 p.m., Wakeland at 2:30 p.m., Aubrey's Braswell at 2:45 p.m. and Little Elm at 3:30 p.m. Out-of-state entries are Yukon and Muskogee from Oklahoma and Bentonville from Arkansas.
The day's schedule
According to the event page:
- 7 a.m.: box office opens
- 7:30 a.m.: stadium gates open for prelims
- 4:30 p.m.: prelims awards
- 6:30 p.m.: gates open for finals
- 7:30 p.m.: first finalist band performs
- 10:45 p.m.: finals awards
