Marching Band
The Northern Marching band has a decades-long history of providing high-quality, entertaining, award-winning performances.
Some of the honors they have earned
The only band to ever win both the "People's Choice" and "Best Adjudicated Band" awards in the same year from the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade [2018]
Selected as "People's Choice" for Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade [2018, 2022]
Selected as "Finale Band" for the Washington D.C. National Cherry Blossom Parade [2015]
Repeatedly selected as a "Main Street, USA" performer by Disney [2009, 2013, 2017, 2023]
First Division ratings at district band festival in 17 of the last 18 years
Have been consistently been selected to be part of the National Television Feed for America's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Detroit) [2010, 2014, 2018]
Both caption-head and overall award wins in Scholastic competitions
Our student leaders are consistently recognized as the "best of the best" and win awards at leadership training clinics attended by hundreds of students each year
All students wishing to participate in the Northern Marching Band must be registered for a band class.
Any student that has some skills on an instrument is welcome to participate, without audition, HOWEVER: there *are* auditions for placement in the drum line as well as the color guard. Each of those two units schedules audition clinics as well as 1 or two audition dates. Please check back here often to stay updated on the auditions.
All students wishing to be in marching band must participate in Marching Band Camp (button to camp mailings below)
If you choose to used the PHASD online payments, it is helpful to have your student's student number handy
If you choose to used the PHASD online payments, E-Funds (not PHASD, not PHNBands) charges a 2.5% handling fee
Payments may be mailed to:
PO Box 596036, Fort Gratiot Michigan 48059-6036
Checks payable to PHNBands