After six or seven parades, one might become rather tired of the typical bands, fire trucks and floats that frequent each march. Each Halloween, however, a typical parade is changed into something spook-tacular at Lynch Field.

The annual Greensburg Halloween parade is held each year on October 31. The GS marching band leads the parade, with each section decked out in different costumes. Approximately 30 kids also join the line-up, anxious to begin a night of trick-or-treating.

Senior Flute player Andrea Farally said her section has not decided on a costume idea yet, but have thought about each member being a queen. Surprisingly, there are always enough unique costumes to go around.

“People don’t really think of the same ideas,” she said.

Each member of the band enjoys the distinctive costume aspect of the Halloween parade.

Junior drummer Angie Shaw also likes to see the spectators’ response. In the Halloween parade, “half the audience’s reaction is in the costume,” and that is part of the reason she enjoys the event so much.

The band and the viewers are not the only people to take pleasure in the parade. Shaw said the children like it, too.

“I think it’s important because they’re seeing older kids keeping these ‘kid-at-heart’ kind of traditions,” she said. The “incorporation of music and how fun it can be,” also attracts a few future band members, according to Shaw.

Shaw’s favorite costume?

“Definitely freshman year, bass line ’03,” she said with a smile. “[We dressed as] energizer bunnies. No one can ever top that.”