Music in the Parks

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Music in the Parks is a day-long adjudication festival for student choral, orchestral, and band ensembles, held annually across North America. Music groups perform before adjudicators who rate the ensemble in the morning, and then spend the day at an amusement park such as Six Flags. The day culminates with an awards ceremony. Awards can be given to either a single player or a whole ensemble.

The festivals are organized by the Educational Programs Network.

[edit] Categories

There are many different categories in the Music in the Parks festival. There are categories for band, orchestra, and choir. Each of these has a high school and junior high/middle school category. The categories are then split up into A or AA, depending on the size of the school. Also, there are different types of band, orchestra, and choir, such as concert band, jazz band, mixed choir, and women's choir. Also, there are other awards given that are based on overall achievement or attitude, as well as for an individual member of a group.

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