{"id":434978,"date":"2025-09-19T02:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434978\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:01:17","slug":"local-marching-band-to-appear-in-london-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/434978\/","title":{"rendered":"Local marching band to appear in London Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; A local high school marching band is set to go international as it has been invited to debut in the London Parade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Organizers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/londonparade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/londonparade.com\/\">London Parade and Festival 2026<\/a> have announced that members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluevalleyk12.org\/BVW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bluevalleyk12.org\/BVW\">Blue Valley West High School<\/a> Marching Band in Overland Park have been invited to travel to participate in the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The event is an internationally celebrated occasion that draws more than half a million attendees to the streets of London. Millions more watch worldwide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leaders noted that the festival\u2019s concert series showcases performances from ensembles in London\u2019s most prestigious venues. This marks a highlight in the high school band\u2019s musical journey. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The Mayor Balloon is pictured in the London Parade and Festival.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IF4NPKMQIRF5DIQSZ6VANV42BE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"696\" \/>The Mayor Balloon is pictured in the London Parade and Festival.(\u00a9 Matt Sprake \/ MSP | London Parade and Festival)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Special guests from the UK are expected to be in attendance, including Festival Founder Bob Bone and Duncan Sandy\u2019s &#8211; the great-grandson of Sir Winston Churchill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A formal presentation of the invitation was held at Blue Valley West High School on Wednesday, Sept. 17. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; A local high school marching band is set to go international as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[51319,7202,12673,115050,12045,52757,748,89027,393,600,867,4884,257,50449,147579,598,23526,12,92845,44232,15642,6093,1470,16,15,9371,7474,1605],"class_list":{"0":"post-434978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-high","9":"tag-app","10":"tag-area","11":"tag-band","12":"tag-blue","13":"tag-break","14":"tag-britain","15":"tag-debut","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-facebook","18":"tag-google","19":"tag-great-britain","20":"tag-london","21":"tag-make","22":"tag-marching","23":"tag-meta","24":"tag-metro","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-nextdoor","27":"tag-parade","28":"tag-school","29":"tag-to","30":"tag-twitter","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-united-kingdom","33":"tag-valley","34":"tag-west","35":"tag-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115228500606863366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}