In just a few months, two Bristol brothers will have a chance to live out their dreams and play the drum together in New York City as part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Simon and Philip Andrews have been playing music since they were babies and now they're rehearsing together with the Bristol Central High School band.
“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 will get the chance to join 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 auction for something like this,” Abucewicz said. "So to have two students from one school go, that’s pretty special, and brothers no less.”
