MILTON — The 1st Blackwater Classic Marching Band Festival is Oct. 1 at Milton High School’s Haywood Hanna Panther Stadium.
The event will feature 15 high school marching bands from Northwest Florida and Alabama. Gates open at 2:30 p.m. with the event ending around 10:15 p.m. Admission is $7 per person.
Bands scheduled to perform include:
Alabama Christian Academy — Montgomery
Booker T. Washington High School — Pensacola
Chipley High School — Chipley
Choctawhatchee High School — Fort Walton Beach
Escambia High School — Pensacola
Foley High School — Foley
Gulf Breeze High School — Gulf Breeze
Jay High School — Jay
Milton High School — Milton
Navarre High School — Navarre
Pine Forest High School — Pensacola
Rutherford High School — Panama City
J.M. Tate High School — Pensacola
Walton High School — Defuniak Springs
West Florida High School — Pensacola
More than 1,800 high school musicians will demonstrate their talents and work ethic by performing their 2016 halftime shows.
See www.miltonhighschoolband.com or contact the MHS Band Office, 983-5611, for more information.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Milton High sets marching band festival