Memorial Day

Spring Season At-a-Glance

• May 5, 4:30-5:30 PM

• May 19, 4:30-6:00 PM (Drum Major Auditions)

• Friday, May 22, BHS Memorial Day Ceremony (no guest marchers) during A Block

• Monday, May 25, 9AM Memorial Day Parade (meet at Grove Street)

Current Roster updated May 2, 2025

MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY AT BELMONT HS - Friday, May 22, 2026

The high school instrumentalists of the MMB will be performing ceremonial music this morning. This includes 12th graders! Please note that rostered members are playing for this instrumental performance; guest marchers will not participate.

7:45AM: Report time to school, change into marching uniforms (you must remember to bring black socks with you today!)

8:05AM: Run-through of Patriotic Salute and America, the Beautiful in the band room

8:20AM: March to the main entrance flagpole

8:30AM: Veterans process in as BHS Band plays Patriotic Salute

8:42AM: BHS Band plays America the Beautiful

8:50AM: ___ performs "Taps"

8:52AM: Veterans file out. BHS Band plays Patriotic Salute. Students are dismissed from assembly, change out of uniforms, and go to B Block class.

This is a required event, planned by our top administration. As you can imagine, it will be a very meaningful day for our veterans in attendance. The roster of instrumentalists has been sent to the main office and your A block absence will be excused on this day. 

Band Drop-off location

The Band drop-off location is at the Grove Street tennis courts at Dalton Road and Bacon Road. Note that Grove Street will be closed to traffic, so students will need to walk across the park, cross Grove Street, and enter the cemetery entrance.

Monday, May 25, 2026 Memorial Day Parade

• 10:15AM Current marchers meet at BHS to put on marching uniforms. If you do not need to come to the band room at BHS to get your uniform or marching instrument, you can meet us directly at the cemetery. You will need a binder clip for your flip folder.

• Door #3 and Band Room Door is locked at 10:50AM.

• 11:00AM Meet inside the Belmont Cemetery. Huron Ave. at Grove Street. Bring your instruments OUTSIDE OF THEIR CASES so that you do not have to go back to the cemetery after the event to retrieve your case.

• 11:30AM Ceremony begins inside the cemetery. Band performs The Star-Spangled Banner & America, the Beautiful. "Taps" is performed.

• 12:15PM Band takes their place on Grove Street outside the cemetery; the parade steps off.

• 12:45PM Parade ends at Veterans Memorial at Clay Pit Pond. Time is approximate.

Parade Dress

• Current marchers wear MMB Uniforms. Spring Season guest marchers will wear Belmont colors or the maroon MMB T-shirt (black pants are preferred, but if you don’t have that, no worries!). Sneakers are required for guest marchers. The shirts were provided this year by POMS. Thank you, POMS!

• Parade shirts should be picked up at the May 19 rehearsal!

• Please see the MMB Student Leadership Team to pick up your shirt.

Sheet Music - Download parts below

1. The Star Spangled Banner

2. America, the Beautiful

3. Patriotic Salute

Important Reminders

1. Students should arrive in parade dress, carrying instruments (out of the case).

2. Hydrate in the days leading up to the parade.

3. Sign up for the Remind text group.

4. All flip folders and lyres should come back inside the “box” in the high school.

5. Students march to the flagpole at the BHS Main Entrance and gather for our last Drum Major dismissal of the season.

6. Parents, please pick up your child in the BHS parking lot.

May 5 Spring Season Rehearsal

• 4:30 Gather in the BHS Band Room, welcome to everyone, and then to sectional rehearsal spaces indoors

• 4:40-4:55 Sectionals (warm up in a circle, tune, and go through all three of our pieces)
  Sectionals spaces: outside the main entrance area of BHS front entrance

• 4:55 Marching rehearsal

• Please be sure to wear sneakers and have appropriate rain gear. If it's raining, we will not put flags or equipment outside at all.

May 6 Spring Season Rehearsal

• 4:30: Meet with instruments outside BHS Main Entrance, full ensemble warm-up

• 4:45PM Drum Major Audition: 

• 4:50PM Drum Major Audition:

• 4:55PM Drum Major Audition: 

• 5:00PM Drum Major Audition: 

• 5:05PM Drum Major Audition:

• 5:10PM Drum Major Audition: 

• 5:15PM Drum Major Audition: 

• 5:20PM Drum Major Audition: 

• 5:25PM Drum Major Audition: 

• 5:30 PM Music on the Move

• Students dismissed from rehearsal at 6:00PM, parents can pick up in the visitor parking lot or main entrance circle