LOOK: PH Air Force, as 'Star Wars' stormtroopers, wins marching band contest

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/03/26/20170325-ihudyat-paf-ads-1.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Members of the Philippines Air Force band go about a performance that helped them win the Ihudyat! competition for best marching band, a contest that took place at UP Diliman Amphitheater on Saturday. <cite>Angie De Silva, ABS-CBN News</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>It&#x27;s an homage that would certainly make Darth Sidious proud.</p><p>The Philippine Air Force bagged 1st place in Ihudyat!, a competition that gathered the best marching bands at UP Diliman Amphitheater on Saturday night.</p><p>Members of the PAF band wore Imperial stormtrooper masks inspired by the &quot;Star Wars&quot; movie franchise, as they went about playing brass instruments. (The glow-in-the-dark tops were a functionally appropriate touch, too, given the time of the event.)</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/03/26/20170325-ihudyat-paf-ads-2.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Members of the Philippines Air Force band go about a performance that helped them win the Ihudyat! competition for best marching band, a contest that took place at UP Diliman Amphitheater on Saturday. <cite>Angie De Silva, ABS-CBN News</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>To complete the ensemble, the band leader was all decked out in a Darth Vader costume, red lightsaber in hand. To say it was the most awesome sight to behold is selling short the band&#x27;s performance and sense of creativity.</p><p>Second place was awarded to the Philippine Army for performing Michael Jackson music, while third went to the Philippine Coast Guard for playing a mishmash of classical music.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/03/26/20170325-ihudyat-paf-ads-3.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Members of the Philippines Air Force band go about a performance that helped them win the Ihudyat! competition for best marching band, a contest that took place at UP Diliman Amphitheater on Saturday. <cite>Angie De Silva, ABS-CBN News</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div>

<p>Members of the PAF band wore Imperial stormtrooper masks inspired by the "Star Wars" movie franchise, as they went about playing brass instruments.</p>

Members of the PAF band wore Imperial stormtrooper masks inspired by the "Star Wars" movie franchise, as they went about playing brass instruments.

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LOOK: PH Air Force, as 'Star Wars' stormtroopers, wins marching band contest

LOOK: PH Air Force, as 'Star Wars' stormtroopers, wins marching band contest

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Published Mar 26, 2017 04:44 AM PHT

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