The Optimists Alumni Drum & Bugle Corps
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
. . . March On!
Instructions
General Instructions
- Taking care of our uniforms (Acrobat file)
Buffalo: Sunday, August 8th
Important Note
- Bring your passport!
Rehearsal Site
- Immaculate Academy
5138 South Park Avenue
Hamburg, NY, 14075 - Google Map to Immaculate Academy
- Directions to Immaculate Academy
- QEW becomes PEACE BRIDGE Fort Erie.
- Turn SLIGHT RIGHT. 0.2 mi
- Merge onto I-190 S/NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY toward DOWNTOWN BUFFALO/I-90/NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY. 1.8 mi
- Merge onto NY-5 W via EXIT 7 toward LACKAWANNA. 7.7 mi
- Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto LAKE SHORE RD. 0.4 mi
- Turn LEFT onto BIG TREE RD/CR-576. 1.2 mi
- Keep RIGHT at the fork to go on BIG TREE RD. 0.2 mi
- BIG TREE RD becomes BAYVIEW RD/CR-575. 0.7 mi
- Turn RIGHT onto S PARK AVE/US-62. 0.7 mi
- 5200 S PARK AVE is on the LEFT.
Performance Location
- Ralph Wilson Stadium
One Bills Dr.
Orchard Park, NY 14127 - Google map for Ralph Wilson Stadium
- Directions to Ralph Wilson Stadium from Immaculate Academy
- It is a very short drive from the Academy.
- You will be making a left out of the College onto Sowles Rd take that to Abbott Rd.
- Left on Abbott Rd taking Abbott to 20A (Big Tree Rd) make a right onto 20A-Big Tree.
- Left into Drive 1 of the Stadium.
- There will be a parking crew that will direct you where to park.
- Cars will be directed to the security gate and will be able to park in the administration lot if their parking pass is displayed.
- These passes will be delivered to us at the rehearsal site
Schedule
| Noon | — | rehearsal begins |
| 4:45 pm | — | warm ups by the stadium |
| 5:15 pm | — | assemble to march to the entrance to the stadium |
| 5:30 pm | — | at the entrance to the stadium |
| 5:53 pm | — | begin performance |