Bristol Brothers Playing Drums at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Two Bristol brothers are living out their dream of playing drums together at Macy's Thanksgiving Parade on Thursday  in New York City.

Simon and Philip Andrews have been playing music since they were babies and now play together with the Bristol Central High School band. But on Thanksgiving they're playing together in the national spotlight.

“For me the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is like an all-star game for a professional basketball player,” Philip Andrews said.

Philip Andrews, a senior, played the drum during the parade last year, and now, after passing a difficult auditioning process, his brother Simon is joining him.

“I couldn’t be more thrilled,” Simon Andrews said.

Band director John Abucewicz, who has taught at Bristol Central High School for more than a decade, said the Andrews brothers are his first students to ever to play in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

“Students from all over the country audition for something like this,” Abucewicz said. "So to have two students from one school go, that’s pretty special, and brothers no less.”

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