When Cynthia Garza and her girlfriends meet on weekday evenings to sew their Carnival costumes by hand, she says they are perpetuating the age-old tradition of sewing circles and quilting bees, ...

During this difficult and confusing time in America, when what many of us thought was up is now argued to be down; when so many Americans thought they knew what was right are now told by an intense ...

Dr. Amy Knopps, Marching Mizzou band director, said music has always come naturally to her. While Dr. Amy Knopps has been busy preparing Marching Mizzou for its trip to New York City to perform in the ...

University of Iowa alum Laurie Canady examined the history of women in the Hawkeye Marching Band related to the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Canady and the women involved with the “50 Years of Women ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Florida A&M student Oluwamodupe “Dupe” Oloyede — whose name translates to "Lord I thank you," — playing her saxophone has not ...

For a century after its founding in 1870, the Spartan Marching Band was known for its iconic green-and-white uniforms, ROTC background and all-male repertoire. The latter changed in 1972 when the band ...

NOTRE DAME. Ind. — A young woman from Richfield, Minnesota will make history on the football field this fall — not as an athlete, but as a musician. "It will be the first time all three drum majors ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — No matter what the final score is at the end of each Buckeye game, fans can always count on The Best Damn Band in the Land to put on a show. But like most great things, there was a ...

Those three words were how former Michigan Marching Band Director George Cavender would speak down to Lynn Hansen. Hansen, a tenor saxophone, dreamed of joining the University of Michigan band during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Football season is ahead, but everyone knows that no game on the gridiron is complete without elite performances from ...

Any UK football fan is familiar with the spectacle that is the Wildcat Marching Band. The band adds a little more life to the constant stops in the game, revving the crowd up with songs meant to get ...

In HBCU football, many times the marching band is a bigger draw than the sport. Halftime becomes the main event, and often, the electrifying entrances of the bands rival the action on the field itself ...