LAKE ARIEL, WAYNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Whereas many prepare for Thanksgiving by prepping a feast, one native band director is getting her marching footwear prepared.

Band director Elaine Ort assumes her on a regular basis place behind the rostrum, conducting Western Wayne band college students.

On Thanksgiving subsequent week, she’ll be warming up and suiting as much as carry out in one of many nation’s largest parades.

“We get this e-mail from the Macy’s company that stated, ‘We wish you to come back to the Massive Apple and do the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in 2023.’”

This one-in-a-lifetime alternative stems from Ort getting chosen to affix the Nationwide Band Administrators Marching Band.

After strolling within the world-famous rose parade in Pasadena final yr, she’s now on the point of hit the streets of New York.

Ort’s college students, like Kalob Franco, say they’re honored to be taught by her.

“I truthfully wasn’t stunned as a result of she’s been a tremendous musician for so long as I’ve seen her, she’s loopy at what she does.”

Ort says this efficiency will present her college students you possibly can obtain any dream – at any age.

“It’s one thing that I by no means thought I’d have the ability to do and now being a working musician and attending to reside one among my lifelong goals which is definitely taking part in an instrument in New York as knowledgeable, it means a lot.”

Ort leaves for the Massive Apple on Sunday to follow up till Thanksgiving.

In the meantime, her college students will obtain further credit score in the event that they discover her on the massive display in the course of the parade.