2 Cherry Hill Musicians in Macy's Thanksgiving Parade

When you flip on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this year, you'll be able to catch a couple of locals crossing the Macy's Star as part of the nearly 400-member University of Massachusetts-Amherst marching band.

Katie Savarin and Sam Kaufman, both Cherry Hill East alums, will be part of the band's historic, first-ever performance in the parade, stepping off as part of the 9 a.m. parade on Thanksgiving to march through Manhattan down to Herald Square.

Savarin and Kaufman are among 21 New Jersey students in the band, which has members from 18 different states and three countries.

It'll be an early start for the band that morning, with a 4 a.m. rehearsal in front of Macy's, before heading down the 2.5-mile parade route along Central Park and into the heart of midtown.

The band's parade-route repertoire will include UMass fight song “Roll Down the Field,” “God Bless America,” and “Sweet Caroline,” in honor of the 2013 World Series champion Boston Red Sox.

The band should hit the star in front of Macy's Herald Square store around 11:24 a.m., where it'll play a staple of the school's basketball pep band, “Big Noise From Winnetka!”

The parade will be broadcast locally on NBC10 starting at 9 a.m.

The band members are pictured above:

1st row:  Emily Gluck (Westfield), Morgan McGrane (Middletown), Katie Jo Prendella (Bernardsville), Julia Cardillo (Hazlet), Hope Bavier (High Bridge), and Demi Staluppi (Wayne)

2nd row: Julia Givens (Middletown), Ryan McNerney (Stanhope), Argan Pagotaisidro (Ridgewood), Carolyn Dirnfeld (Freehold), Sam Kaufman (Cherry Hill), Spencer Weinstein (Mount Laurel), Danielle Hecht (Hillsborough) , Taylor Bertelsen (Howell)

3rd row, Daniel Wu (Demarest), Adam Har-Zvi (Glen Rock), Neal Scheraga (Glen Rock), Dylan Casler (Montville), Morgan Farrar (Rahway), Emily Hopkins (Pennington), Katie Savarin (Cherry Hill)