The 2024 Music in Oil Country marching band festival will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, September 7, at the Oil City High School athletic complex. The gates will open at 6 p.m. Admission is $5.

This year’s festival will feature 11 high school bands spanning seven counties. The festival will showcase the hours of practice the students have put into each of their shows.

High school bands scheduled to perform include the Oil City Oiler Marching Band, Franklin High School Black Knight Marching Band, Titusville Rocket Marching Band, Keystone Panther Marching Band, Lakeview High School Sailor Band, Cambridge Springs Marching Blue Devils, Warren Marching Dragons, Conneaut Area “Rock n’ Roll” Marching Band, Fort LeBoeuf Stampede of Sound Marching Band, Brockway Marching Band and West Middlesex “Big Red” Marching Band.

As in past years, the festival will again offer concessions, raffles, a bake sale, t-shirt sales, candy grams and air grams.

Proceeds from the festival will help offset the cost of new uniforms for the Oiler Marching Band. The band has ordered new uniforms and hopes to debut them during the fall football season.

In the event of inclement weather, the event will be held in the Oil City High School gymnasium.

Anyone with questions may contact Daniel Cartwright, Oil City Band Director, at dcartwright@mail.ocasd.org.