Clovis High band set to play in 2027 Rose Parade in Pasadena

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Clovis High School Band is heading to Pasadena.

They were selected arsenic 1 of 5 precocious schools to instrumentality portion successful the 2027 Rose Parade.

Day successful and time out, the Clovis High set works to guarantee it tin enactment connected a large show.

They're led by Instrumental Music Program Director Esmeralda Rocha Lozano.

On her bureau wall, close adjacent to wherever students practice, are monumental moments the set had anterior to her arrival.

That includes performing successful the Rose Parade. It was that representation that sparked a dream.

"1986 is the past clip the set went to the Rose Parade, and I thought, however awesome if we could bash a 40th anniversary, and my extremity would beryllium 2026?" Rocha Lozano said.

So successful 2020, she softly started applying successful hopes of the set making a Rose Parade return.

Year aft year, she would get further successful the process, but was ever rejected.

The past clip she applied, she tried thing caller and included set members successful the video application.

Then, this August, she got the call.

"They conscionable said, 'Well, we person a large question to inquire you.' You know, 'Will you, you know, beryllium honored to march successful the 2027 Rose Parade?' And then, you know, of course, I started to cry." Rocha Lozano said.

Clovis High was 1 of 5 precocious schoolhouse bands selected.

Once it was official, it was clip to archer the students, but Rocha Lozano wanted to find the cleanable moment.

She kept it to herself for months. Then, during a location shot crippled successful October, the peculiar announcement was made connected the large screen, close arsenic the set finished performing.

The students - inactive connected the tract - had assorted reactions.

"I was conscionable like, amazed we really made it, you know, similar thing that big," Freshman Adam Ramirez said.

"We were like, we were conscionable each truthful excited. I retrieve looking astir and seeing radical like, shocked. Some radical were like, jumping astir and screaming and stuff," Junior Kendra Sharpe said.

The set has astir a twelvemonth to hole up of the 2027 Rose Parade, 41 years since Clovis High was past there.

Seniors who postgraduate successful the outpouring volition beryllium invited to instrumentality and instrumentality part.

Rocha Lozano has nary uncertainty the set is going to basal out.

"These set members person a grit and a tenacity to them that they volition bash thing to marque definite that Clovis High, the City of Clovis and the Central Valley are truthful good represented," Lozano said.

The radical volition beryllium moving connected fundraising for the adjacent twelvemonth to guarantee each pupil has the accidental to go.

The outgo volition beryllium astir $1,500 per student.

You tin marque a donation to enactment their travel by clicking here.

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