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39th Annual First Flag over the United Colonies Marching Band Festival
Easton Holds First Flag Marching Band Festival
Eight high
school marching bands and one middle school band will perform tonight at the
39th Annual First Flag over the United Colonies Band Festival in
Easton.
Presented by the Easton Area High
School Instrumental Music Association (IMA), the First Flag festival is a grand
tradition in Easton where local and regional bands demonstrate their talent and
compete at Cottingham Stadium, located between N. 11th and N.
12th Streets one block off Northampton Street.
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Gates open at 5:30 p.m. and
performances start promptly at 6:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $5/adults and
$4/students and senior citizens.
The marching bands from Easton Area
High School and Easton Area Middle School 7/8 will perform in exhibition, while
the competing bands are from Wilson, Southern Lehigh, Phillipsburg, Emmaus,
Saucon Valley, Bangor and Pocono Mountain East high schools.
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The IMA also will be selling
refreshments, 50/50 tickets, basket raffle tickets, hats, pins and magnets, and
will be taking orders for decorative pillows made from old Easton band uniforms.