Waikiki Holiday Parade

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Web: WaikikiHolidayParade

Email: Angie Voll, Director of Sales

Mail: Gateway Music Festivals & Tours, Inc.
PO Box 1165
Monticello, MN 55362 USA

Phone: 1-800-331-8579

If you are interested in entering your band in a future Waikiki Holiday Parade, or to get in contact with band directors from all over the United States about their experiences with participating in this event, please request an information packet!

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Band directors from all over the United States return from Hawaii each year, thrilled by their experiences during this amazing week with their bands.

Thousands of spectators, residents and visitors gather annually on the Friday after Thanksgiving to watch this non-competitive parade, which hosts local bands, marching bands from the mainland, Pearl Harbor Survivors, service bands, military units, local officials, dignitaries and entertainers. The scenic parade route travels approximately 1.5 miles through Waikiki along the oceanfront of beautiful, torch-lit Kalakaua Avenue. You won't find a warmer welcome in any other destination.

Now in its tenth year, the Waikiki Holiday Parade commemorates Pearl Harbor Survivors at the anniversary of the attacks. Thirteen bands from the mainland traveled to Hawaii in 2006 when the parade commemorated the 65th Anniversary of the momentous event:

• John Overton High School, from Nashville, TN - directed by Jo Ann Hood (2nd time participant)
• Pope High School from Marietta, GA - directed by Gary Gribble (2nd time participant)
• Salem High School from Conyers, GA - directed by Shawn Geiger (2nd time participant)
• Liberty High School Grenadier Band from Bethlehem, PA - directed by Greg MacGill
• Greeneville High School from Greeneville, TN - directed by David Price
• Jonesboro High School from Jonesboro, AR - directed by Steve Warner
• East Lincoln High School from Denver, NC - directed by Dustin Stamey
• La Quinta High School from Westminster, CA - directed by Jamie Baker
• Barry Goldwater High School from Phoenix, AZ - directed by Nick Burdick
• Northern State University from Aberdeen, SD - directed by Boyd Perkins
• Peachtree Ridge High School from Suwanee, GA - directed by Eric Willoughby
• Sapulpa High School from Sapulpa, OK - directed by Alex Claussen
• Slinger High School from Slinger, WI - directed by Dave Hanke

Bands are already making plans for next year's Waikiki Holiday Parade. Here are the current entries as of January 2008:

Evans High School from Evans, GA
Lakota East High School from Cincinnati, OH
Northwest Guilford High School from Greensboro, NC
Wyoming All-State High School Marching Band
St. John's Northwestern Military Academy from Delafield, WI

A band's visit to Hawaii for the Waikiki Holiday Parade provides additional opportunities for performances and educational activities. Highlights of your tour may include:

• Adopting a Pearl Harbor Survivor
• USS Battleship Missouri Performances
• USS Arizona Memorial
• Polynesian Cultural Center
• Thanksgiving Day festivities at Hawaiian Waters Adventures Park
• Diamond Head Hiking
• Dole Pineapple Plantation

Friday, November 27, 2009
Friday, November 26, 2010
Friday, November 25, 2011 - 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
(Held the Friday after Thanksgiving, annually)

Web: WaikikiHolidayParade

Email: Angie Voll, Director of Sales
Mail: Gateway Music Festivals & Tours, Inc., PO Box 1165, Monticello, MN 55362 USA
Phone: 1-800-331-8579

If you are interested in entering your band in a future Waikiki Holiday Parade, or to get in contact with band directors from all over the United States about their experiences with participating in this event, please request an information packet!