Sioux City, Iowa — The marching band from Sioux City Bishop Heelan High School will perform at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta on Saturday.
Jeana Larson is the school’s band director.
The Peach Bowl’s music festival committee sends representatives to marching band competitions around the country to scout for bands. Larson says she got a letter LAST December, inviting the band to perform in this year’s Peach Bowl.
Yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, 62 students and 20 adults boarded buses and left Sioux City, bound for Georgia. Larson says before the bowl game itself, there’s a competition for the invited bands.
Cahill Kirkpatrick is the drum major for the marching band.
All the invited bands will be on the field during pregame on Saturday and there will be a mass performance of the National Anthem. The game itself features teams from the Big Ten and the S-E-C — 10th-ranked Penn State and Ole Miss, which is ranked 11th. Kirkpatric says band members have been advised to cheer for the Big Ten’s Nittany Lions.
Bishop Heelan’s concert band and jazz band are performing at other Peach Bowl-related events.