Villa Park honors DuPage 88 Marching Band with ‘Best Musical Performance Award’

On July 28, the Villa Park VFW Post 2801 and the Village of Villa Park Board of Trustees named the DuPage 88 Marching Band as the 2025 recipient of the “Best Musical Performance Award.”

The band is composed of Addison Trail and Willowbrook student-musicians, and the schools joined together for the first time this summer. The group members were honored during the July 28 Village Board of Trustees Meeting for their talent and creativity in the Independence Day Parade, which was hosted by the Villa Park VFW Post 2801 on July 4.

• To view photos from the presentation, see the images above. For photo captions, click on the images.
  
  
• To view the presentation, click on the video above.
  
  
• To watch the award-winning parade performance, click on the video below.

There is one more opportunity to see the DuPage 88 Marching Band, as members will play in the Addison-Medinah Shriners Parade on Aug. 24. For event details, go to https://www.ithappensinaddison.com/event_details/addison_medinah_shriners_parade_362.