Submitted by Tournament Indoor Association Region 4
BELLEFONTE — Tournament Indoor Association Region 4 will begin its 2024 season on Saturday, Feb. 3, at Bellefonte Area High School for color guard, dance, twirler and percussion students.
This event is sponsored by the Bellefonte Performing Arts Boosters in conjunction with the National Judges Association. Tournament Indoor Association represents schools and organizations in nine states, divided into geographic regions. Sixty weekend shows are scheduled from January through April, leading to the annual region championship. This year’s TIA Region 4 championships will be held on Sunday, April 28, at Central Mountain High School. The following weekend, the TIA Atlantic Coast championships will feature over 160 competing units and more than 400 performances during four days of pageantry and excitement in Wildwood, New Jersey.
Bellefonte Area High School will welcome over 300 color guard, dance, twirler and percussion students from the Susquehanna Valley Region of Central PA and the Harrisburg Region. These students will be representing Allegany County (Maryland), Bald Eagle Area, Bellefonte Area, Central Mountain, Jersey Shore, Southern Tioga, Sugar Valley and Mifflin County school districts, as well as independent performing units from Lock Haven, Sunbury, Wingate, Penn State and Cumberland, Maryland.
The day-long event will start at 9 a.m. with closed-to-the-public educational clinics for all the performing students and staff members. These clinics will include hands-on equipment, movement and music sessions for the students, as well as a review of each unit’s 2024 full production by the NJA adjudicators.
The evening competition will be open to spectators beginning at 4 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. This will allow the students not only to perform for their friends and family, but also to be adjudicated and ranked on their performances.
Doors will open to the general public at 3 p.m. and the performances will begin at 4 p.m. The Bellefonte Performing Arts Boosters will have food and beverages available in the school cafeteria and will also be offering raffles, flowers and candy grams. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and senior citizens.
TIA Region 4 will be hosting additional regular season competitions on March 2 at Central Mountain
High School in Mill Hall, March 9 at North Penn/Liberty High School in Liberty, March 23 at Jersey
Shore High School in Jersey Shore and April 28 at Central Mountain High School in Mill Hall.
