| The Moanalua High School "Menehune" Marching Band & Color Guard is
one of the largest marching bands in the state with 240+ members.
Participation in the marching band is voluntary, but students must be
enrolled in a Music Department class to be a part of the winds or
drumline. The band has consistently
held "superior" ratings in state marching band festivals and competes in
all state marching band festivals as well as the Aloha Festivals Aloha
Week Parade. The Marching Band is known for its "extreme precision
and discipline" and has been said to be one of the top 10 marching bands
in the country by visiting adjudicators. In 2005, the marching
band was hand picked to march in the 2005 Presidential Inauguration, but
had to decline due to commitments to the Carnegie Hall Symphony
Orchestra trip. The Marching Band is the most
traveled of any organization at the school, having performed in the
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade twice, the Orange Bowl Parade and
the World's Fair in
Knoxville, TN. The band has also performed extensively abroad in
the New Year's Day Parade in London, twice in the Osaka Midosuji Parade,
the World Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia and the International Youth
Music Festival in Vienna, Austria.
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