MIAMI – The Marjory Stoneman Douglass Substantial School Marching Band, identified as the “Eagle Regiment” performed their hearts out throughout Thursday’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
The band executed the getaway vintage “The Polar Convey.”
The MSD marching band is the only band from Broward County to at any time be chosen to engage in in the well known holiday tradition.
162 students experienced been predicted to participate in the parade. Dozens of employees, loved ones and buddies joined them.
To aid them make it there, Parkland mothers and fathers Tony Montalto and Max Schachter donated a complete of $42,000 to the band.
Their youngsters, Gina and Alex, had been amongst those people killed in the massacre at MSD in 2018.
Both were being very pleased users of the band.
“Alex beloved the band so substantially. He created his most effective buddies in band. He figured out a perform ethic in band and he uncovered how he can work really hard and succeed,” Max Schachter explained. They’re heading to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and we required to be there for them. Alex is with them just about every day.”
The Thanksgiving efficiency capped off a truly outstanding calendar year for the Eagle Regiment, which kicked off 2023 marching in London’s New Year’s Working day parade.
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