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 recruited its first two female ...

Like many universities, the Cornhusker Marching Band was originally formed as a cadet ... The same year, Diane Miller Frost served as the first female drum major. In 1975, Thimgan received another ...

For 149 years, the largest collegiate military marching band in the ... While Holder is the female first drum major of the combined band, women have served as drum majors of the individual ...

Dionne Randolph has curated the marching band lineup for the Krewe of Muses, the all-female group that hosts the popular parade, for 25 years. For her, Carnival is a restorative time.

Bridges became not only the first female, but the first African American to be selected director of Jones College’s Maroon Typhoon Marching Band. Bridges said she intends to build on the ...

“Since she lived past 90, it was considered a happy farewell.” Funeral director Chang Chen-tsai said marching band performances were supposed to “liven up the atmosphere” of funerals and ...

In 1981, the all-female pop-punk band The Go-Go’s set ... t do,” or what they thought girls simply couldn’t do. “Marching band and percussion has been male dominated from the start ...

“[Marching band] is embedded into my DNA and my life ... and her hard work in the band led to an achievement as her alma mater’s first female percussion section leader.

It marked the culmination of my inaugural marching season with the band — a moment I had long awaited. Dr. Nikole Roebuck, Grambling State University director of bands. As the first female ...

It marked the culmination of my inaugural marching season with the band — a moment I had long awaited. As the first female director of bands for the Grambling State University World Famed ...