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| | Future is rosy for this high school band |
 | | On Saturday morning, the brothers and more than 300 fellow band members rehearsed locally for the last time before they and about two dozen parents and staff members loaded their instruments, uniforms, hats, spats and gloves, onto semitrailer trucks that headed west. |
 | | Lakeville band director Nate Earp, 57, notes, however, that he knew nothing of that conversation until later, and applied through normal channels, including sending videotapes of the band's performances and a list of his group's impressive established record. |
 | | The band routinely performs around the country, including gigs at the Orange Bowl Parade and Disney World, on the deck of the USS Missouri and at the presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C., in January 2005. |
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