For Release: Aug.

3, 2014

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Muncie Central defeats three-time defending champ to win

State Fair Band Day title
Winchester falls to newly combined band
INDIANAPOLIS For the first time in four years, a band other than Winchester
Community High School has won the Musical Travel Consultants Indiana State Fair
Band Day competition. The Spirit of Muncie Band and Guard, newly formed after the
consolidation of the Muncie Central and Muncie Southside High Schools, can call itself
State Fair champions.
The bands from the two schools
got a head start on the transition
this past April and began
competing together this summer,
before the schools officially
combine this fall. Performing
their show entitled The
Anatomy of Composition:
Poetry, Art & Music, the Spirit
of Muncie won the top prize,
something that Muncie
Southside had not been able to
do since 2008 and Muncie
Central hadnt done since 1953.
The band is directed by Jeramiah Bowman and H. Clay Arnett.
Winning feels amazing, said drum major Raegan Gordon. I just knew that we were
going to win.
Winchester slipped just one notch this year to second place while Richmond High School
followed close behind in third. Here is tonights Sweet 16 final placing:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

Muncie Central High School

Winchester Community High School
Richmond High School
Anderson High School
Centerville High School
Jay County High School
Noblesville High School

8. Northeastern Jr./Sr. High School

9. Kokomo High School
10. Hagerstown Jr./Sr. High School
11. Monroe Central Jr./Sr. High School
12. Mooresville High School
13. Southmont High School
14. Frankton Jr./Sr. High School
15. Yorktown High School
16. West Lafayette High School
About Indiana State Fair
The Indiana State Fair is the states largest multi-day event celebrating Hoosiers spirit
and agricultural heritage. Nationally recognized for offering great entertainment,
showcasing youth, interactive agriculture education programs, premier facilities and a
variety of unique, fun foods, the Indiana State Fair has been an annual tradition for
generations of Hoosiers since 1852. The 2014 fair is celebrating the Year of the
Coliseum. For more information, please visit www.indianastatefair.com.
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