{"id":36991,"date":"2026-11-04T14:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=36991"},"modified":"2026-11-04T14:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:32:21","slug":"westfield-marching-blue-devils-earn-top-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=36991","title":{"rendered":"Westfield Marching Blue Devils Earn Top Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Westfield High School Marching Blue Devils had a fantastic showing at the Warwick Music for All Affiliate Regional Event held in early October. Hosted by the Cavalcade of Bands and Music for All, the event featured 15 competing bands\u00a0from across the region. The event was held at Warwick High School in Lititz, PA.<\/p>\n\n

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The Marching Blue Devils performed their 2026 production, \u201cIn Shape,\u201d finishing in first place overall in prelims and winning the captions of Music, Visual, and Effect. Later that evening in the finals competition, the ensemble finished second place overall and placed second overall in the captions of Music and Visual.<\/p>\n

The Marching Blue Devils are under the direction of directors Chris Vitale and Gabe Batiz. The ensemble’s drum majors are Senior Drum Majors Marisa Villere-Reidy and Benjamin Macry and Junior Drum Major Piper Moscowitz.<\/p>\n

Director Chris Vitale said, \u201cWe\u2019re extremely proud of how the students performed this weekend. Winning prelims in a field of 15 bands and then finishing second in finals against some outstanding programs was a significant accomplishment for our group. More importantly, the students showed that the work they have been putting in is translating to the competition field. We still have a lot of growth ahead of us and more of the production to complete, but we are excited about where this group can go over the next several weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their 2026 production, \u201cIn Shape,\u201d focuses on shapes and colors. Different parts of the performance represent a triangle, circle, or square, creating unique visual styles throughout the show. The performers use formations, movement, staging, and colors to constantly change the look of the production. The show also plays around with the idea of what it means to be \u201cin shape\u201d in a fun way, featuring music of the band ABBA and the Rocky movie series.<\/p>\n

The Marching Blue Devils also competed at the NJMBDA contest at East Brunswick High School on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n

Students interested in joining the Westfield High School Marching Band for the Fall 2027 season are encouraged to attend an interest meeting in the spring. More information about the program is available at www.westfieldhsbands.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Westfield High School Marching Blue Devils had a fantastic showing at the Warwick Music for All Affiliate Regional Event held in early October. Hosted by the Cavalcade of Bands and Music for All, the event featured 15 competing bands\u00a0from across the region. The event was held at Warwick High School in Lititz, PA. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":36992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-36991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westfield-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36996,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36991\/revisions\/36996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36991"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=36991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}