The weather that postponed Aubrey's Peanut Festival parade on Oct. 3 also tested the 19th annual Aubrey Marching Classic, held the same Saturday at Aubrey High School. This year the bands had somewhere dry to go.
Before taking the football field, visiting bands sheltered and ran their warmups inside the district's indoor multipurpose athletic facility, which was finished earlier this year, The Post-Signal reported in its Oct. 8 edition.
"It would have been a really, really soggy, wet day," Aubrey ISD Director of Bands Jason Noyes told the newspaper, thanking Aubrey ISD and "everybody who voted for that bond." He said one band canceled but that most districts still made the trip.
Results
Saginaw High School was named grand champion, with Terrell High School second and Mesquite High School third when the top 10 were announced at the closing ceremony, according to The Post-Signal. Pilot Point placed third overall in Class 3A in the preliminary round, and Collinsville took the top Class 2A spot. Tioga also competed.
The contest used five judges, three for music and two for visuals, with music weighted 60 percent and visuals 40 percent, Noyes said.
