High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Youth in Music championships are a marching band competition held annually at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota in late October. This year`s Championship will be on October 23rd, 2010. Participating are the top-ranked high school marching bands from Minnesota, as well as participants from Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. Due to the timing of the event, at the end of the field show season, it is considered to determine the Minnesota State Champion band. The program was begun in 2005 by Eden Prairie`s Brent Turner, a former Corps Director of the Minnesota Brass Drum and Bugle Corps.