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Gwinnett high school band to perform at New Year’s parade in London

A float at the 2016 version of London's New Year's Day Parade. The marching band from Gwinnett County's Brookwood High School will participate this year.

Credit: © Matt Sprake / MSP

Credit: © Matt Sprake / MSP

A float at the 2016 version of London's New Year's Day Parade. The marching band from Gwinnett County's Brookwood High School will participate this year.
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Dec 30, 2016

The marching band from one Gwinnett County high school will ring in 2017 in style.

English style.

Brookwood High's Bronco Marching Band will participate in London's New Year's Day Parade and Festival, which bills itself as "the world's greatest street spectacular." The band's 200 or so members will be among the more than 10,000 participants from the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.

Half a million people are expected to take in the parade in person, with millions more watching on television.

The New Year's Day festivities begin at noon London time — meaning Georgians will have to get up at 7 a.m. to watch the event, which is streamed live online here.

The performance will be the first international one for Brookwood, which has earned nine local and regional grand championships throughout the years.

You can follow the band's London exploits on its Facebook page.

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Before taking over the AJC's Sports Daily newsletter, Tyler Estep spent two years writing the A.M. ATL newsletter. A Gwinnett County native and University of Georgia graduate, he has been with the AJC since 2015 and previously worked as a reporter on the breaking news, hyperlocal and local government teams.

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