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The Fifth Annual Harvest Marching Band Festival on Saturday, October 15, 2005, features twenty-five of the finest high school marching bands from Washington, Idaho and Oregon involving over 2000 musicians and 4000+ spectators. Each band performs a ten-minute show including wind and percussion musicians, flag teams, rifle squads, dance teams, etc. for judging. Some of the bands use semi-trailer trucks to carry all of the equipment that is used!

The preliminary competition runs from 9:15 AM - 4:30 PM. The top 12 bands perform in Finals competition which starts at 6:00 PM. Tickets ($7) are available at the event.

Harvest is now one of the premier marching band competitions in the state of Washington and has grown from twelve to twenty-six participating bands in just five years. Locally, West Valley and Highland High Schools will be in the competition and Eisenhower and Davis High Schools will perform at 5:30 PM in exhibition as the hosts of the festival. Most of the bands involved in Harvest also participate in at least two other competitions each fall.

Harvest is jointly sponsored by the Davis and Eisenhower High Schools in the Yakima School District and the related Band Booster organizations.