Tri-State Band Festival

Twenty-three bands participate in 72nd annual Tri-State Band Festival
By Mavis Fodness
October 04, 2023
Summer returned to southwest Minnesota Saturday as Luverne hosted the 72nd Annual Tri-State Band Festival. Seventeen bands marched down Main Street for the morning parade competition along with Luverne bands as hosts. Nine bands participated in the afternoon field competition on the high school football field. As temperatures reached into the 90s Saturday afternoon, emergency services dealt…
Tri-State Band Fest is Sept. 30
By Lori Sorenson
September 27, 2023
Twenty-three bands and 1,500 students from around the tri-state area will perform Saturday in the 72nd annual Tri-State Band Festival. The parade competition begins at 9:30 a.m. on Luverne’s Main Street. Seventeen bands will be part of the parade, with bleachers available for spectators at the intersection of McKenzie Avenue and Main Street, where the judging station is also located. Nine…
71 years of 'The Granddaddy of Band Festivals'
By Jason Berghorst
September 20, 2022
My day job is teaching world history and psychology classes to high school students. Each year in the second or third week of the school year, I teach about cultural diffusion in world history. Simply put, cultural diffusion is when one group shares its ideas, technologies and/or ways of life with another group. We study how this process happened in the earliest civilizations and how it is still…
Band Festival Committee: 'Be Proud of what this community has created"
October 01, 2019
To the editor: The Tri-State Band Festival Committee salutes the Luverne community for the overwhelming support and participation in the 69h Annual Tri-State Band Festival. This event would not happen without the involvement, commitment and energy of businesses, organizations and individuals in the tri-state region. The City of Luverne and the Public Works Department assisted and coordinated the…
Golla salutes Luverne for festival support
October 09, 2017
To the Editor: The Tri-State Band Festival Committee would like to salute the Luverne community for the overwhelming support and participation in the 67h Annual Tri-State Band Festival. This event would not happen without the involvement, commitment and energy of businesses, organizations and individuals in the tri-state region. We would like to specifically acknowledge the tremendous…
Hartman: Thanks for the countless hours that ensure many more successful Tri-State Band Festivals
September 26, 2016
To the Editor: The Tri-State Band Festival Committee would like to salute the Luverne community for the overwhelming support and participation in the 66h Annual Tri-State Band Festival. This event would not happen without the involvement, commitment and energy of businesses, organizations and individuals in the tri-state region. We would like to specifically acknowledge the tremendous…
A big shoutout the 'granddaddy' of band festivals
By Jason Berghorst, columnist
September 19, 2016
This is a big weekend in Luverne. Sure, there have been a lot of "big" events in Luverne this summer. Buffalo Days, Fourth of July at The Lake, Hot Dog Night, the county fair, a beer fest, and other events have given local residents plenty to do. But this weekend is the Tri-State Band Festival, the 66th annual festival in fact, which means it's been around longer than all but one…

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