Columbus Day Parade

On Columbus Day, the NHHS Band marched in the 63rd Annual Columbus Day Parade in New York City. Nate carried the American flag, since they don't make him push his bells down 5th Avenue. The parade route is 35 blocks down 5th Avenue, north from 44 th to 79th St. (Google Maps has street view for NYC - if you click on the man icon, you will see St. Patrick's Cathedral. You can pretty much see the route as Nate did by panning or dragging the little man icon around) That is almost 2 miles on a October day that hit 90 degrees (Dispute global warming now, Nate?) Nate was one tired puppy when he got home. Here is a video of NHHS performance in the parade:




For those of you that like the technical info.....I recorded the whole 3 hour parade coverage on my Tivo. Fortunately, I was also watching the parade at work, so I knew about where in the recording NHHS performed. Otherwise it would have been 3 hours of searching through opera performances and ads for every Italian business in greater NYC. I copied the Tivo file to my laptop when I got home (almost 4 hours for a 3 hour video!). I then used a video editing program called VideoReDo Plus to extract the MPEG from the Tivo file and edit out everything except the intro and the band's performance - 3 hours down to 1:42 - yes, that's a minute and 42 seconds. I then created a YouTube account (which is easy since I have a Google account for, among other things, this blog) and uploaded the video. A word about the quality....I have an old-fasioned, non-HD TV and Tivo, so the resolution is 480 x 480 and I think the upload to YouTube does some compression, too. We all know it's Nate with the flag, but I doubt anyone could pick him out without some hints.