The 57th annual Central Methodist University Band Day will be held on Saturday, October 1, with more than 30 schools from around the state set to compete.

Schools from all classes are included in the lineup for the day of competition, which will include a morning parade around the courthouse square, and performances by bands, drum lines, and color guards.

The day will kick off with the parade at 9:30 a.m. in front of Swinney Conservatory. It will go down Church Street, turn left at the bandstand, left again onto Main Street, and end at the entrance to CMU at Main and Elm streets.

The parade will be followed by field competition at Davis Field beginning at 11:15 a.m. Indoor competitions will take place in Puckett Fieldhouse, with drum line starting at noon and color guard starting at 11:30 a.m. in the turf room.

The field and indoor competitions are free to enter for CMU students, faculty, and staff. A gate fee at the field for other spectators is $5.

Participating schools, by class, are:

Exhibition –  Clark Middle School and Salisbury Junior High.

Class 1 – Glasgow, New Haven, North Shelby, Orrick, Osage, and Sweet Springs

Class 2 – Bourbon, Crest Ridge, Eugene, Fayette, Gallatin, Harrisburg, Linn, Mid-Buchanan, New Franklin, Salisbury, Sherwood, Smithton, and Westran.

Class 3 – Blair Oaks, Boonville, California, Fatima, Hallsville, Macon, and Owensville.

Class 4 – Eldon, Fulton, Grandview, Kirksville, Marshall, Mexico, and Oak Grove.

Class 5 – Troy Buchanan and Waynesville.

Many of the schools will be led by directors who have attended Central. Alumni directors include Shelly Swink (Glasgow), Jack Malo (Gallatin), Kevin Fearn (Harrisburg), Jonathan Hobbs (Mid-Buchanan), Michael Williams and Crystal Kimmi (Salisbury), Tiffany Lechner (Blair Oaks), Alec Fields (Boonville), Casey McDonald-Schneider (Fatima), Ryan Lewis (Hallsville), Kelly Neudecker (Fulton), Sara Summers (Marshall), Josh Yancey (Mexico), and Jared Sabatasso (Waynesville).