NEW ALBANY — If you plan on attending the Harvest Homecoming parade Saturday afternoon, there will be a noticeable difference in the air.
The sound of music.
While there will be just two high school bands in the lineup — New Albany and South Central — there will be several teenage bands which will fill the streets with music.
The parade will leave New Albany High School at noon, travel down Vincennes Street and turn west on Spring Street. Participants will travel down Spring before ending at Bank Street.
“I think it’s definitely better this year,” said Kathy Baker, vice president in charge of the parade. “We have a lot more music and the turnout and interest has been wonderful.”
Besides teenage bands and the two high school marching bands, the Kosair Shriner Oriental Band is also in the parade. There are 119 units scheduled to participate.
Baker also said there are more floats in this year’s event.
“I think we are up a little this year [entries]. I think the big difference will be the number of musical groups.”
Opening ceremonies for Harvest Homecoming will be held at 11:30 a.m. near the viewing area at Seventh and Spring streets.
The parade is not the only Harvest Homecoming event this weekend. Other festival events, including one in
Jeffersonville, are:
• The 10th-annual Taste of Our Place will be from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Hoosier Room at Indiana University Southeast, 4201 Grant Line Road in New Albany.
The event benefits Our Place Drug & Alcohol Education Services, New Albany, and is sponsored by Your Community Bank. In addition to food sampling from over a dozen local restaurants, there will be a silent and live auction beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for individuals, $20 for a couple, and $5 for children 10 and under in advance; tickets at the door are $15 for individuals, $25 for a couple, and $5 for children 10 and under. College students with college ID receive $5 off ticket cost.
• The Harvest Ball will be from 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday at Kye’s II in Jeffersonville; dinner tickets are $50 and the event is semi-formal attire.
• The David Broadus Memorial Motorcycle Ride will begin at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the New Albany Riverfront. The cost is $20 per bike.
The ride will go through Southern Indiana with stops in Corydon, where participants will have lunch, then onto various other locations. The ride will end at Indiana University Southeast, just in time for the Harvest Homecoming Hot Air Balloon Race.
• The Harvest Homecoming Pro-Am Golf Tournament is at 11 a.m. at Valley View Golf Club in Floyds Knobs on Sunday.
• The Indiana University Fall Festival will be from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday at the IUS. There will be pumpkin decorating, midway games, performances by student and community groups.
• The Harvest Homecoming Hot Air Balloon Race will lift off at about 5 p.m. Sunday, weather permitting.
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