Quick March

The year has come to an end for St. Andrew’s Legion as far as official appearances. With our last parade we played in over 43 events for the year. With that said here’s a quick look back at the events of the past month and almost a half. At the Urbana Oyster Festival we won second place out of five bands. Not too shabby considering we were severely outnumbered by all the other bands. We followed Urbana by opening for Seven Nations and honoring our Counties Veterans on Veterans Day. We marched in the Ashland Holiday parade just prior to Thanksgiving. We helped one of our sponsors by playing for MacLaren’s Jewelry Store’s Grand Opening. Next we marched in the Alexandria Scottish Christmas Walk and turned around the next day and marched in the Mechanicsville Christmas Parade. In the Mechanicsville Parade we won best Musical Unit (Non Band) as we marched with the Camp William Latane Sons of Confederat Veterans. Mechanicsville Christmas Parade

For a little more about a couple of the events:

If you get the chance you need to visit MacLaren’s Jewelers. The staff and owners are a real joy to work with and inside is an amazing store. Inside you’ll find Hand stencilled walls, original sculpture and finely crafted furniture inspired by Belle Epoque luminaries Gustave Stickley and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We just dodged the rain that day as we waited for Channel 12 to show up. We finished stepped inside and the rain started. Please take a moment to visit MacLaren’s in Short Pump if you get the chance you will surely find something unique in the store.

The Alexandria Christmas walk was something else this year. It rained the whole way up there and kept raining until just about the time the parade stepped off at which point it went from rain to sleet to snow. It continued to snow the rest of the day until we got south of Fredericksburg again at which point it was changed into rain. We marched once again with the guys from Thistle and Shamrock out of Ocean, City New Jersey. T&S are great group of guys with LOTS of en-TWO-siasm. (Does Jersey translate into English?) It’s always fun and entertaining to march with them. Check out some of the photos and videos from the event below.

Alexandria Christmas Walk Massed Bands

Alexandria Christmas Walk

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