The Daily Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival is an annual festival dedicated to high school bands and majorette corps in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The event is held at the University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field in Charleston, West Virginia at the end of September of each year, usually the last Tuesday of September. The first event was held in 1947. At the beginning of the event, "The Star Spangled Banner" is played by the previous years festival grand champion. The 2012 Festival Grand Champion is Capital High School. The event is sponsored by the Charleston Daily Mail newspaper. It is the longest running music festival in West Virginia. 2012 was the 66th anniversary of the festival.
Read more about Daily Mail Kanawha County Majorette And Band Festival: The JoAnn Jarrett Holland Memorial Scholarship Fund, WVU and Marshall Exhibition Shows, High School Bands, Previous Miss Kanawha Majorettes, Previous Festival Grand Champions
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