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One of the largest student organizations on the campus of Belleville East High School is the Belleville East Marching Lancers. This year, the band consists of approximately 165 musicians, 21 in the color guard and 15 dancers. The band is lead by drum majors Hanna Crask, Gracie LaBlance and Lily Mentzer!
The Marching Lancers march parades throughout the year, starting at the beginning of the summer and finishing in late November. At the beginning of August, the band goes through two weeks of band camp, when they learn their marching show for the fall season. They perform the show during halftime at home football games and at major competitions in the Metro East area.
Every two years, the band attends a bowl game. In 2002, the Marching Lancers went to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Georgia where they won top honors including Grand Champion. In 2004, they marched at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee, also winning the Grand Champion trophy. In 2006 the Marching Lancers performed in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, FL where they were grand champions of Jazz and Concert Band and placed 2nd in the parade and 3rd in the field show. Recently the band returned from another successful trip to the 2008 Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN. They placed 2nd in field show and 1st in the Liberty Bowl Parade. In 2016 the band marched in the Chicago St. Patricks Day Parade and in 2018, made a return to the Outback Bowl in Tampa. In 2022, the Marching Lancers made their second appearance in the Indy 500 Festival Parade and in 2023, the Marching Lancers will travel to Orlando to compete in the Bands of America Orlando Regional.
The Marching Lancers have a strong history. Under the direction of the first director, Mr. Leroy Kirsch, the band was chosen to participate in the grand opening of Six Flags - Mid America (now Six Flags - St. Louis).
2023 Show
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Metro East Marching Classic
Bands of America Orlando Regional
Bands of America St. Louis Super Regional
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| 2022 Show
"After Dark"
Metro East Marching Classic
4th place in class 4A
Edwardsville Tiger Ambush Classic
2nd place in class 4A (best music)
Panther Marching Band Festival Eastern Illinois University
Grand Champion - 1st place in class 6A (best visual, general effect, percussion and color guard)
Effingham Marching Hearts Invitational
Grand Champion - 1st place in class 6A (best music, visual, general effect, percussion and color guard)
Bands of America St. Louis Super Regional
7th place in class 3A - 21st place overall
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| 2021 show
"Fire and Ice"
Metro East Marching Classic - 3rd Place in Class 4A
Tiger Ambush Classic - 2nd Place in Class 4A
Fort Zumwalt North River City Showcase - 4th Place in Class 6A/ 5th Place in Finals
Bands of America Super Regional Championships St. Louis - 13 Place in Class 4A
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| 2019 Show - Arachne
2019 Awards & Placements
Fort Zumwalt North River City Showcase
2nd Place in Finals
Sullivan Marching Band Competition: Sullivan, MO
2nd Place in Finals
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| 2018 Show - The Mad Hat
2018 Awards & Placements
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2017 Show
"Charmed"
2017 Awards & Placements
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2016 Show
"Which Witch"
No One Mourns the Wicked and Defying Gravity from Wicked - Stephen Schwartz
Children Will Listen and The Last Midnight from Into the Woods - Stephen Sondheim
Symphony Fantastique - Hector Berlioz
The Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky
2016 Awards & Placements
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| 2015 - The Gallery
Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky
Nuages - Claude Debussy
Fetes - Claude Debussy
Asphalt Cocktail - John Mackey
2015 Awards & Placements
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| 2014 - Be Still My Beating Heart
Romeo and Juliet - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet - Sergei Prokofiev
Heartless - Kanye West
Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz
You'll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins
2014 Awards & Placements
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| 2013 - Transformations
2013 Awards & Placements
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2012 - Control
2012 Awards & Placements
2011 - The Brain: 101
2011 Awards & Placements
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| 2010 - "... the Box"
Heat of the Day-Pat Metheny
Hunting Wabbits 2-Gordon Goodwin
New World-Bjork
A Night in Tunisia-Dizzy Gillespie
2010 Awards & Placements
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2009 - "5"
1. Beethoven's 5th
2. Take 5
3. Hungarian Dance No. 5
2009 Awards & Placements
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2008 Show
"Bugz"
I. The Anthill
II. The Garden
III. The Web
2008 Awards & Placements
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2007 Show
"An American Elegy"
Appalachian Spring-Aaron Copland
An American Elegy-Frank Ticheli
At Dawn They Slept: December 7, 1941-Jay Bocook
2007 Awards & Placements
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2006 Show
" Murder in Manhattan"
1. Manhattan/ Scene of the Crime
2. And In Walks the Dame
3. To Catch a Killer
2006 Awards & Placements
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Grand Champion - Outback Bowl Marching Band Festival
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2005 Show
"Midnight in Transylvania"
2005 Awards & Placements
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2004 Show
"A Childhood Dream"
2004 Awards & Placements
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2003 Show
"Sorcery Suite"
2003 Awards & Placements
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2002 Show
"Inchon "
2002 Awards & Placements
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2001 Show
"The Planets"
2001 Awards & Placements
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2000 Show
"Pastime: A Salute to Baseball"
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| 1999 - The Pinstripe Chronicles |
1997 - Return to the Paradise Theater - The Music of STYX
1996 - A Day In The Life In New York City
1995 - A Salute To John Williams
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Belleville East High School
2555 West Blvd.
Belleville, IL 62221
Phone: (618)-222-3751
Email: mtessereau@bths201.org
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