\u2018Awesome Original Second Time Arounders\u2019 Marching Band<\/a> will march in Philadelphia\u2019s \u201cSalute to Independence Day\u201d parade this weekend for America 250.<\/p>\nThe band is made up of musicians of different ages and backgrounds, many whom played in school and now have a chance to perform again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like to say our age ranges are 18 to 80 plus,\u201d piccolo player Amanda Dinaro said. \u201cBecause we are all about performing second time around. If your first time around was in high school or college, we give you a chance to pick up your horn and dust it off and play again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group is taking about 150 members, including baton twirlers, a color guard, and dancers. The band has been preparing for the performance since parade organizers invited the group two years ago, Director Stephen Cantin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the big one,\u201d Cantin said. \u201cWe knew we made the right decision to go and commit to this trip and parade and the band broke out to a huge applause.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group is also honoring its founder, Bill Findeison, who passed away earlier this year. Findeison led the band for more than 40 years. Members will wear patches in his honor during the trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just keep Bill\u2019s standard of having fun,\u201d Cantin said. \u201cJust have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
The band\u2019s parade set includes music from \u201cLes Mis\u00e9rables,\u201d \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d and patriotic songs like \u201cThe Stars and Stripes Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the feeling of the crowd,\u201d Dinaro said of performing. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like it. So I\u2019m very excited to perform. Especially with the historical significance of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Second Time Arounders\u2019 trip is also sponsored by Visit St. Pete-Clearwater, which will be represented on banners the band will display.<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia parade is Friday, July 4. The band\u2019s performance is airing live during coverage from noon to 4:00p.m. on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa Bay will be represented in Philadelphia for the Fourth of July. The \u2018Awesome Original…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52302,274,770,276,115,135,137,136,7227,278,835],"class_list":["post-327334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-america-250","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tim-wronka","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}