New chart for 2026 - Anthems of the 6 Armed Forces (replaced Salute to Armed Forces). Now included in all music downloads EXCEPT PERCUSSION

Attention: the download packet includes extra music that we won't play, but print/download all seven of the Fulton marches and all 15 of the Philip Sparke-arranged Sousa marches (they're the ones in landscape format). Jeff might add un-programmed Fultons (during the pre-program) or Sparke Sousas (during the Sousathon).

9:15 - downbeat for "pre-program" concert

Pre-program list is in probable play order

Note: We have a choir this year! They will attend the Saturday, June 27 rehearsal from 10:30-11:00 during which we'll run all the charts that they sing with us (National Anthem; Battle Hymn of the Republic; America The Beautiful; God Bless America)

The number of Fultons that we play (Policy King &/or Queen of the Sea are "probable/possible")  depends upon the schedule. 10:00 is a hard stop for the pre-concert.

• Aviator (in the Fulton packet)
• American Patrol
• American Salute
• 76 Trombones 
• Policy King &/or Queen of the Sea (in the Fulton packet)
• Them Basses (no repeats) Note: The emcee/mayor plays sousaphone and has long said he'd play with us.  We're calling his promise. Anyone with a sousaphone is invited to the front of the band to form a sousaphone line with him for Them Basses.
• Bugler's Holiday - do not hesitate (i.e. try to syncopate) the downbeat 3rd measure of 9. All of 9 to 10: "don't follow a pattern; it doesn't exist".

Read what's written - you will NOT get it right by guessing.

• National Emblem (this is our traditional "Last chart before the MC starts the formal program"). There is NO STINGER!!

Do not linger on the half note; get off of it. Tbn & Euph, B section "Oh the monkey wrapped his tail . . . " and two and one" - bring it out, marcato short & long

10:00 - music in support of the "formal program"

NOTE: this list is in likely play order (pending confirmation of event program)

• To the Color (bugler only, no band - this is for the Color Guard's flag ceremony)
• Star Spangled Banner - pickup to C is straight eighths, NOT dotted-eighth sixteenth
• Anthems of the Six Armed Forces 
• Battle Hymn of the Republic - pickup to 10 will start the sub-divided section (eighth note gets the beat - eight beats per measure) then there's an abrupt return               to the original tempo (return to quarter note gets the beat) @2 before 11. I.e. watch Jeff 
• America the Beautiful - All: delete measure 1; the piece starts with a bass drum roll in measure 2. The Tranquil section is a faster tempo than the fanfare. Jeff                        slows down on the pickup to the last 2 measures. In short, watch Jeff.
• God Bless America - ALL: @24, repeat back to 21, end on the FIRST beat of 24 by playing your chosen note of an Eb Major chord (concert Eb, G, or Bb) 

11:00 - "Sousa-thon" for the children's parade

( the band DOES NOT MARCH! We remain seated under the tent)

Percussionists: draft page turners from your family or the audience so you can play a cadence between charts to avoid dead air. it's a LOT more fun for the children if there's a beat while they're "marching" in the parade.

• Stars & Stripes Forever is the kick-off march. The kids are lined up, and the starting whistle helps them feel like they're in a "real" parade. Jeff provides the tempo                       to the whistler to blow the sound-off, and then he brings in the band.
• Riders For the Flag (this is NOT in the booklet; it's a standalone Sousa march that we introduced last year)

The following Sousas are all in the booklet and will be played in alphabetical/book order. We may skip some depending upon crowd size, heat, exhaustion . . .

• Beau Ideal
• Fairest of the Fair
• High School Cadets
• Invincible Eagle
• Liberty Bell
• Manhattan Beach
• Semper Fidelis
• Thunderer
• Washington Post