Excelsior began marching in Mardi Gras processions one year later ... Hall was a founding member of the Mobile Symphonic Pops Band, serving as its tuba leader. He also performed with Dauphin ...

Excelsior began marching in Mardi Gras processions one ... The Excelsior Band’s full complement of musicians consists of trumpet players, a tuba, bass drum, snare drum, saxophone players and ...

"They say all of our kids nowadays can't get along. That's not true," he says. "Marching band in Mardi Gras, you see a whole unit. You see a unit from the front to the back. From the flags to the ...

Williams stressed the culture today is a part of “a much larger creation,” birthed by past great band directors who made marching bands essential for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. “As much as ...

Mackyrin Holmes, 12, practices with his tuba in preparation for a street ... before he heads out to march in a Mardi Gras parade. The marching band uniform belonging to Courtney Jones, 13, hangs ...

The St. Augustine High School Marching 100 band parades down St. Charles Avenue at the Rex parade for Mardi Gras 2015 in New Orleans. (Photo by Chris Granger, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune ...

An SUV driver plowed into a high school marching band at a Mardi Gras Day parade in Alabama on Tuesday, injuring at least a dozen people – four of them critically, ABC news reported. The 73-year ...

Mardi Gras parades can be a marathon ... According to Northside band leader Taylor Stansbury and her father, band parent Anthony Stansbury, the marching bands gathered that day felt a ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's not a Mardi Gras parade without a marching band leading the way. Even though there aren't any parades this year, WWL-TV is sharing performances from some of New Orleans ...

The new marching band at Wilberforce University will high step in rhythm at the competitive Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans this weekend. “Judging from the calls from those down there in New Orleans ...

making it the oldest Black girls band marching in the city. Today, it is one of just a handful of all-girl bands to regularly appear in Mardi Gras parades. The school opened its doors in the ...

The Marching Crusaders band program serves youth aged nine to 14 from low-income ... 1,400 bus journeys and supplies up to 200 instruments for student use free of charge. “Mardi Gras is special and ...