Every Thanksgiving millions of Americans sit down to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade but this year Galesburgians will be able to watch one of their own.
Galesburg High School Junior Kelsey Lamb will be a part of the 250 piece Macy’s Great American Marching Band in downtown Manhattan tomorrow.
Lamb posted her flute audition video in March and was selected among applicants from all over the country.
Her GHS band director Brianne Hankes tells WGIL that Lamb’s acceptance into the Great American Band was no accident.
“When we do scales and things like that, that maybe aren’t as much fun to practice, she’s always got them down,” Hankes says, “and she always at becoming the best flute player that she can be.”
Lamb arrived in New York late Saturday night, got a chance to sight see Sunday night.
She’s had a tight schedule this week with heavy rehearsing and more sight seeing peppered in.
She says she has “more adrenaline than nervousness going on” and she thinks that will take over everyone when performance time comes.
The parade steps off from Central Park and will end in Macy’s Herald Square where the Great American Marching Band will play a medley of New York Anthems for a national audience broadcast on NBC.
Lamb will be on Galesburg’s Morning News on WGIL Friday at 810 to talk about her parade experience.
Joe Hicks and Kathryn Franken are marching as members of the Marching Illini of the University of Illinois.
U of I is this year’s Santa band, the group that is at the end of the parade ushering in Santa Claus, himself.
Lamb will be on Galesburg’s Morning News on WGIL Friday at 810 to talk about this week’s experience.
