Tri-State Band Festival
Class A Parade:
First Place: Murray County Central High School
Second place: Garretson High School
Class AA Parade:
First Place: Sioux Falls Christian High School
Second Place: West Central High School
Class AA Field:
First Place: West Central High School.
Second Place: Lennox High School
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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...
Twenty-three bands will perform Saturday in the 71st annual Tri-State Band Festival.
The parade competition begins at 9:30 a.m. on Luverne’s Main Street.
Fifteen bands will be part of the parade with bleachers available for spectators at the intersection of McKenzie Avenue and Main Street, where...
Faye Bremer blames the unintended collection of Tri-State Band Festival buttons on her late grandfather.
Walter Greene worked as a bill clerk for the South Dakota Senate. Bremer inherited his bucket full of political campaign buttons and would casually toss the buttons from the Tri-State Band...
An upcoming Luverne High School junior will have her design featured on the 2022 Tri-State Band Festival button.
Perceyis Trierweiler created the award-winning design as a sophomore in Bill Thompson’s graphic arts class.
LHS students enrolled in a fine arts or graphic arts class are encouraged each...
A year after the coronavirus pandemic caused the 2020 event to be canceled, Luverne’s Tri-State Band Festival returned Saturday for the 70th time.
Crowds once again lined Main Street to watch 14 bands compete in the parade competition with nine bands staying for the field competition.
Luverne, as...
It was one for the history books. Luverne's iconic Tri-State Band Festival this year played out in the form of a marching band clinic to a small audience of family members in the bleachers at Cardinal Field Saturday afternoon. The Luverne band — the only one to play — performed its “Moving On”...
Much of the Luverne High School Marching Band performance schedule is canceled, including this weekend’s Tri-State Band Festival.
However, festival organizers have developed a special educational clinic for the 52 local students who will take the field at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Due to the coronavirus...
Instead of multiple marching band performances, this year’s Tri-State Band Festival will feature one band with limited in-person attendance.
Committee members announced last week that the 70th annual Tri-State Band Festival planned for the last Saturday in September will instead take place Sept. 25...
Luverne High School senior Chandra Javner created the winning design selected for the 2020 Tri-State Band Festival button. The school’s fine arts and graphic arts classes submitted selections from which Tri-State Band Festival committee members chose Javner’s design. She created the design in Mr....