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.