Champions on parade : Final Scores

6. 63.35 Bushwackers

5. 76.30 Cavalleros

4. 76.75 CT Hurricanes

3. 77.80 Empire Statesman

2. 78.70 Minnesota Brass

1. 81.40 Reading buccaneers

Best color guard – CT Hurricanes

Best visuals – Reading buccaneers

Best percussion – Reading buccaneers

Best brass – Reading buccaneers

Best effects – Reading buccaneers

In 1948, so that Barnum’s “kind acts may live forever,” Steinkraus and community leaders established the Barnum Festival, saluting Barnum and the people and events that made him the greatest showman on earth.