Victoriano Mendoza To Participate in 2016 London New Year's Day Parade

2015 Nov 18

Victoriano Mendoza of Winters will be participating with the McMurry University War Hawk Band in the 2016 London New Year's Day Parade.

The McMurry band received the invitation to march in the Parade in February. The London New Year's Day Parade is the largest New Year's Day parade in the world, annually drawing a street audience of more than a half million people and a worldwide television audience of nearly 300 million viewers. Set in downtown London, the two-mile parade passes the city's iconic landmarks, ending in the famed Parliament Square.

Participation in the parade is only by invitation from the parade's steering committee in the United Kingdom.The 2015 parade featured more than 8,500 performers from 20 countries around the world and included only two American university marching bands, the University of Northern Iowa Panther Marching Band and the Appalachian State University Marching Mountaineers.