Roswell Marching Band Invited To London's New Year's Day Parade

ROSWELL, GA — The Roswell High School Marching Band has accepted an invitation to perform in the 2020 London New Year’s Day Parade and Festival.

The invitation was issued by Deputy Lord Mayor of the city of Westminster Councillor Robert Davis, with Executive Director of London Parade Robert Bone and other parade officials in attendance at the Tuesday, Sept. 25 ceremony.

“After a tough and thorough selection process … I have with me the formal invitation, an honor bestowed on very few high schools in the United States,” Davis said to Roswell Band Director Michael Moon and members of the Marching Band.

“This is an exciting day for the Roswell High School Marching Band,” said Moon, who has been in his role two years.

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Bone said that each year the parade has 8,500 parade participants from 20 different countries and 650,000 spectators, while 600 million watch the event on television from around the world. Sixteen American high school and college bands will perform in the 34th annual parade in 2020.

“[The spectators] come primarily because of you,” Bone said to Marching Band members. “They just love American marching bands. [The British] don’t have anything like it.”

Besides the parade, which takes place at noon on New Year’s Day, members of visiting marching bands give concerts throughout the week in venues across the city of Westminster.

The Roswell High School Marching Band will be in London from Dec. 27, 2019, to Jan. 3, 2020. For more information about the London’s New Year’s Day Parade and Festival, visit www.lnydp.com.

Images via Roswell High School