An Oñate Knight and Mayfield Trojan will have street-level views of this year's Tournament of Roses Parade.

Bryce Newcomer, a senior at Oñate High School, and Kiersti Bertolas, a 17-year-old Mayfield junior, have been selected by Music for All to be members of the Bands of America Honor Band in the parade on Jan. 1 in front of the historic Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

Newcomer and Bertolas were selected from among hundreds of applicants across the nation for membership in this national honor band. But it won't be their first time playing together. The pair also play their chosen instruments in a clarinet choir here in Las Cruces.

Newcomer and Bertolas, with families in tow, will spend a week in southern California, where they will have rehearsals, performances at the Tournament of Roses Bandfest and Disneyland, special activities and a featured appearance in the world-famous parade.

But, Bertolas said, marching with her bass clarinet is a far more daunting prospect than her regular gigs.

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