Anoka High School Band Program

Band students at Anoka High School have many unique performance opportunities and have received many recent accolades:

  • 2022 Third Place Class A Minnesota State Marching Band Championship

  • 2022 Third Place Percussion Scholastic Regional A MPA Championship (Winter Drumline)

  • 2021 Third Place Class A Minnesota State Marching Band Championship

  • 2020 MSHSL Large Group Contest, Superior Rating

  • 2019 Third Place Class A Minnesota State Marching Band Championship

  • 2019 MSHSL Large Group Contest, Superior Rating

  • 2019 Performance tour to Germany & Austria

  • 2018 Marching Band feature on The Jason Show

  • 2018 First Place Class A Minnesota State Marching Band Championship

  • 2018 National American Legion Parade

  • 2018 MSHSL Large Group Contest, Superior Rating

  • 2018 Selected to perform at the Super Bowl Experience for Super Bowl LII

  • 2018/2019 Performed for 50 year reunions of Anoka High School classes of 1968 & 1969

  • 2017 Performance tour to Chicago, IL

  • 2017 MSHSL Large Group Contest, Superior Rating

  • 2017 Second Place Class A Minnesota State Marching Band Championship

  • 2017 MN State Fair Grandstand Performance for Garrison Keillor's "MN Show"

  • 2016 MSHSL Large Group Contest, Superior Rating

  • 2016 First Place Class A Minnesota State Marching Band Championship

  • 2016 Performance for the Federal USPS Postage stamp grand revealing

  • 2016 Performance tour to Los Angeles & San Diego, CA

  • 2016 Selected to perform at the MMEA Convention

  • 2015 Live NPR broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion"

  • 2015 MSHSL Large Group Contest, Superior Rating

  • 2013 Selected to march in the Washington D.C. 4th of July parade