84th Annual Battle of the Flowers Band Festival

[madisonbandman1]

Every year San Antonio has a celebration called Fiesta, usually about 11 days long in total. Millions of people from around the world come to celebrate during this time period, culminating in a few major events that attract millions of people to watch together both on the street and on television. The other events will be in another thread. On Battle of the Flowers Day, there is a festival at Alamo Stadium in downtown San Antonio. On average around 32-33 bands enter into this festival every year. Every single one of them is a high school band. Pre-Covid, that consisted of over 5,000 students. Every band marches in a parade around the track and performs a short track show, usually like a minute or so's worth and moves on, save two bands. Three bands every year are selected through public vote to perform their fall show for the crowd during the intermission of the parade. My band was selected alongside Brandeis and Southwest in 2016, and this year is happens to be CTJ, Jefferson HS, and Harlan HS who were selected (All three from San Antonio). When one band is done with their part of the parade they go and sit in the bleachers on the backside, so by the last band the entire back side of the stadium is filled with bands, instruments still in hand. That stadium really starts to roar by the end of it its really cool. Reminds me of a college marching band atmosphere here at UNL.



At the end of the Parade all of bands then line up in a very tight block formation on the field and back track. They fit ALL of the bands down there. They then perform an awesome show for the crowd (which I must say the students are absolutely suffering during but loving it nonetheless lol. That show HURTS lol. We still get excited nonetheless of giving you that second to none wall of sound that rattles your bones and pushes your hair back 😆) that is accompanied with a massive ending that I won't spoil. I will say that 5,000 bodies of musicians pumping so much energy at you is an exhilarating experience that you really just need to experience for yourself. There really is nothing like it out there. Reminds me a little bit of old school Drum Corps Retreats I must say, similar style. Still nothing like this out there. Anyways enough of my nerdy rant, here are the bands who are attending this year.



PS. One of the local ABC affiliate news networks, KSAT 12 streams the event both on the local tv channel and online for free. I may not remember to hop on here to drop the link the day before or day of but I am sure one of our other locals here will be happy to do that if they are on! It isn't hard to find through google if you want to find it yourself by the way. Enjoy!



Battle of the Flowers Band Festival - April 7th, 2022

Alamo Stadium

110 Tuleta Dr, San Antonio, TX 78212



Antonian College Preparatory HS

Brackenridge HS

Brennan HS

Burbank HS

Central Catholic HS

Churchill HS

Claudia Taylor Johnson HS - Feature Band

East Central HS

Edison HS

Harlan HS - Feature Band

Harlandale HS

Highlands HS

Jefferson HS - Feature Band

John F. Kennedy HS

John Jay HS

John Marshall HS

Judson HS

Lanier HS

Legacy of Educational Excellence HS

Marion HS

McCollum HS

Memorial HS

Nixon-Smiley HS

Poteet HS

Poth HS

Robert G Cole HS

Sam Houston HS (A crowd favorite every year!!!)

Sandra Day O'Connor HS

Somerset HS

South San Antonio HS

Southside HS

Southwest HS

Southwest Legacy HS

Tom C. Clark HS

Veterans Memorial HS

Wagner HS

[LeanderMomma]

What a fun tradition this is. ♥️♥️