Football is being put to the sidelines, and marching bands will be taking the field at Tuesday’s Annual Frisco ISD Marching Band Showcase at the Ford Center from 6:30-9:30 p.m.

“The showcase itself is just another mile marker embedded into the competitive season,” band director Jamie Weaver said. “For us, the Showcase is more like ‘Tuesday, but with an audience.’”

Working on this year’s show, “A Common Thread,” since mid-July, Tuesday’s band showcase serves as an opportunity to display their talent in front of the district’s 11 other schools.

“You perform it in front of every other Frisco high school, so it’s a big reputation thing. It’s like bragging rights,” senior Maggie Wang said. “So, sometimes it means more than actual competitions. Because this is the first time you perform the show to every high school, there’s a lot of student judgment.”

However, the Redhawks are confident their rehearsal will pay off.

“I feel like we’ll do really good,” freshman Nash Pulley said. “We’ve put in a lot of work, and it’s really showing because we’ve almost finished the whole show just in rehearsal. On Saturday will be your first competition to show how good we are, and then we’ll put that forward.”

The competition can help students become better at performing their show, but it can also provide valuable lessons that can be applied later in life.

“Resilience in preparation becomes a major component. Just this week, we talked about the only two choices you get after you complete something – REPAIR it if you didn’t like the outcome, or REPEAT it if you did like the outcome,” Weaver said. “Our entire lives will be spent either repairing or repeating.”