About Lafayette Band

July 29, 2011

By iHigh Staff of Lafayette Band


Since 1990, the "Pride of the Bluegrass®" Marching Band has won the Kentucky Music Educators Association (KMEA) State Championship in Class 4A and Class 5A an incredible 16 times. Since the inception of the KMEA State Marching Band Championship in 1986, the Lafayette Marching Band has performed as a finalist in every state championship event. The Lafayette Band earned the title of Grand Champion in more than 55 state, regional and national competitions during the last decade. The band is a two-time recipient of the coveted Sudler Shield, an international award recognizing high school and youth marching bands of world class excellence. Lafayette Marching Band has had the distinct honor of escorting Santa on two different occasions in the world-famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.