SPF Marching Band returns to MetLife Stadium

Andy and Shannon outside MetLife Stadium before performance.

Hurricane Sandy scrambled the high school marching band schedule in New Jersey, with the result that the Scotch Plains-Fanwood band wasn't able to compete in the State Finals. But things turned out well in the end because the band was instead able to perform for a second time this season at MetLife Stadium.

Despite missing a week and a half of practices due to power outages after the storm, the band put on a great show and placed 2nd in the USBands season-finale competition. Andy, a Junior, plays tenor drums. His girlfriend, Shannon, who plays marimbas, is a Senior, so this was her final high school marching band competition.