The stage is set for the 51st Indiana State School Music Association marching band state finals taking place Nov. 9 at Lucas Oil Stadium.
The advancing high school marching bands competed in regional semi-state competitions across the Indiana on Saturday, Oct. 26. Schools competed in classes according to enrollment size with the largest in Class A and the smaller schools in Class D.
The following schools advanced to the finals:
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Open Class A
Floyd Central/Floyds Knobs Homestead/Fort Wayne Brownsburg Noblesville Goshen Fishers Avon Carmel Carroll/Fort Wayne Castle/Newburgh
Open Class B
Jasper North/Evansville Concord Community Greenwood Community DeKalb/Waterloo F.J. Reitz/Evansville North Side/Fort Wayne Greenfield Central Pendleton Heights Plainfield
Open Class C
BoonvilleEdgewood/Ellettsville NorthWood/Nappanee Northwestern/Kokomo Princeton Community Western/Russiaville Northview/Brazil Concordia Lutheran/Ft. Wayne Angola Fairfield/Goshen
Open Class D
Paoli Jimtown/Elkhart Mater Dei/Evansville Forest Park/Ferdinand Springs Valley/French Lick Monrovia Knox Community Adams Central/Monroe Lewis Cass/Walton Woodlan/Woodburn
SCHOLASTIC CLASS EXHIBITION
Heritage Hills/Lincoln Warren Central/Indianapolis
Contact IndyStar investigative reporter Alexandria Burris at aburris@gannett.com. Follow her on X, formerly Twitter, at @allyburris.
