Doors open at 6:30PM
Parking available in MSU Lot 20 or Lot 9
https://www.mnsu.edu/globalassets/about/maps-and-transportation/maps-and-directions/map-pdfs/parking-map/
The Lancers have an incredible opportunity this year! They will be traveling to Florida and performing at Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom!
Join us for a spectacular day of music and pageantry with over 30 bands, in beautiful U.S. Bank Stadium!
The Festival is an exciting day featuring bands from South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota competing for superior honors in parade and field competition categories.
The event is hosted each year by five local high school bands who also perform in Field Exhibition: Washington, Roosevelt, Bishop O’Gorman, Lincoln, and Jefferson High Schools from Sioux Falls, SD.
Bands compete, according to their enrollment, in 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A Classifications in the Field Competition. Superior trophies and caption certificates including Drumline, Hornline, Guard and Drum Major, are awarded in the Field competition in each classification.
Plans have begun for the 37th annual Waseca Marching Classic on
Saturday, September 21, 2024.
Save the date, Saturday, September 21, for Family Entertainment at its Best!
PRELIMS Performance Schedule
11:00am Welcome – National Anthem
CLASS A
11:15am Park Center (MN)
11:30am Minnetonka (MN)
11:45am Coon Rapids (MN)
12:00pm Blaine (MN)
12:15pm Andover (MN)
12:30pm Anoka (MN)
12:45pm Harrisburg (SD)
1:00pm Champlin Park (MN)
1:15pm Hastings (MN)
1:30pm Break
CLASS AA
2:00pm Mankato (MN)
2:15pm Marshall (MN)
2:30pm Brookings (SD)
2:45pm Farmington (MN)
3:00pm Waseca (MN)
3:15pm Lakeville South (MN)
3:30pm Break
CLASS AAA
3:45pm Irondale (MN)
4:00pm Brandon Valley (SD)
4:15pm Eden Prairie (MN)
4:30pm Waukee (IA)
4:45pm Eastview (MN)
5:15pm Prelims Awards
5:45pm Stadium Cleared
FINALS Performance Schedule
6:30pm Gates Open
7:15pm Exhibition if needed (class champ not in the top 10 scores from prelims)
7:30pm Finalist Band #1
7:45pm Finalist Band #2
8:00pm Finalist Band #3
8:15pm Finalist Band #4
8:30pm Finalist Band #5
8:45pm Finalist Band #6
9:00pm Finalist Band #7
9:15pm Finalist Band #8
9:30pm Finalist Band #9
9:45pm Finalist Band #10
10:00pm Rosemount (Exhibition)
10:15pm Finals Awards
Each year, on the first Saturday after Labor Day, Eastview hosts their marching festival.
The Eastview High School campus offers an ideal location for a marching festival with its vast acres of field space for warm-ups and close proximity to the performance site. There is plenty of parking for spectators and the early fall weather can't be beat.
Our goal is to give you the absolute BEST festival experience, whether that means offering you the best judges in the upper midwest to provide early season feedback, or if it means providing the best critique meal you've ever experienced. We will do our best for you!
Come watch a dozen marching band and color guard shows and cheer on your Mankato Area 77 Lancers!
Join the Lancers and Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Maverick Machine for a night of good food and good music!
Come watch the Mankato 77 Laners perform in a parade at the Minnesota State Fair. More details to come!
Come and enjoy food and music at Mankato East High School. Come out and see the 77 Lancers as they present their 2024 show “Mirrorball” for the first time!
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Social + Food Trucks
8:01 pm Performance Begins
The 2024 competition in Mankato will be the 32nd Thunder of Drums show presented by the Mankato Kiwanis Club.
Net proceeds from the show support Kiwanis youth projects including Kiwanis Camp Patterson on the shores of Lake Washington, which annually hosts more than 2,500 children during the camping season. Proceeds also support the '77 Lancers Marching Band.
Over 63,000 visitors have attended the Thunder of Drums during its 31-year run,
