Today the Richfield marching band is led by Chad Armbruster, who started with the Spartans 3 years ago, and Abby helped him train in dozens of new band members after she graduated.

In 2025, 50 years after Peterson, Wesley would become the first woman to be appointed drumline section leader for the Spartan Marching Band. "To get in at all was really exciting for me," Wesley said.

On Sept. 6, beneath the stately oaks and broad magnolias, LSU’s campus will once again come alive with the roar of the four ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- For the first time in USC history, the Trojan Marching Band has named a female drum major. India Anderson is a tuba player, and perhaps the definition of modest and humble.

It’s been a long, hard, winding road since 2019 for the Anderson High School Marching Highlanders. That was the year the Marching Highlanders won the Indiana State Fair Band Day competition. The next ...

Heidi Sarver, the University of Delaware's first female director of its marching band, is retiring after 29 years at the age of 60. Here's why.

As the first female director of bands for the Grambling State University World Famed Tiger Marching Band, I am inspired to reflect on the profound journey that has brought me to this moment. The ...

From the "Sunshine Girl" who burst out of Big Bertha at the 50-yard-line to two of the first women allowed to join after Title IX, band members tell their stories.

Johnson, now 80, was well past her undergraduate days when she and a handful of other female trailblazers started lobbying the band to let them march. Never mind that she hadn't picked up her high ...

Dr. Nikole Roebuck, director of bands at Grambling State University, directs the World Famed Tiger Marching Band on the field of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome during the November 2023 Bayou Classic.