Southern Star InvitationalBand Festival & Competition 

Performing artists deserve recognition for their long hours of hard work. The Southern Star Invitational provides a great opportunity to reward the students!

To recognize the variety of achievements, a wide variety of awards will be presented. With large and impressive trophies, students will have something to take home and proudly display. In fact, the grand champion trophy stands almost 6 feet tall!

Trophies will be presented to bands for Best in Class, Second Place, and Third Place in each classification.

The Southern Star Grand Championship Trophy will be awarded to the band with the highest score band regardless of class.

Trophies and awards will also be awarded in each of the following band sections:

Drum majors 
Percussion
Color Guard
Auxiliaries, including majorettes and rifles

Performing artists deserve recognition for their long hours of hard work. The Southern Star Invitational provides a great opportunity to reward the students!

To recognize the variety of achievements, a wide variety of awards will be presented. With large and impressive trophies, students will have something to take home and proudly display.

All bands participating in the Festival portion of the show will be rated Superior, Excellent, Good, or Fair. No numeric scores will be given.

Trophies will be presented to bands with overall Superior and Excellent ratings.

Trophies and awards will also be awarded for Superior ratings in the following band sections:

Drum majors                             Percussion
Color Guard
Auxiliaries, including majorettes and rifles