On October 5th, the Maine West Marching Warriors hosted three visiting marching bands: Geneva High School Marching Vikings, Prairie Ridge High School Wolfpack Marching Band and Barrington High School Marching Broncos at the annual Maine West Marching Band Festival. The festival, organized by Maine West's director of bands, Mr. Bernie Gerstmayr, was created to offer a performance opportunity focusing on education and collaboration in a friendly, non-competitive environment that fosters musical and technical growth for area high school marching bands.
Each band performed their 2024 marching band show, and then participated in a workshop with top clinicians from around the Chicagoland area, who provided them with valuable feedback and tools to improve their craft.
Thank you to Mr. Gerstmayr for your vision and organization making tonight's event possible!
Thank you to all of the visiting band directors and marching band staff for preparing your ensembles so well and for all of your efforts that allowed them to be a part of this event!
Thank you to the student announcers, Carter Roper and Lianna Ritti, for keeping us informed and entertained!
A HUGE thank you to the many, many parent and student volunteers who helped tonight as Maine West Fine Arts Boosters volunteers! We could not have done this event without your support!
Many more pictures from the 2024 Maine West Marching Band Festival can be found HERE.
The program from the 2024 Maine West Marching Band Festival can be found HERE.
Geneva High School Marching Vikings, Directors: Neal Shipton & Riley Carter
Prairie Ridge High School Wolfpack Marching Band, Directors: Mary Kate Kuhne & Jeff Crylen
Barrington High School Marching Broncos, Director: Kevin Krivosik
Maine West High School Marching Warriors, Director: Bernie Gerstmayr
