It's a year of firsts for the Penn State Blue Band, a student organization that traces its roots to 1899 - and that continued Saturday in the football team's home opener vs. Nevada. Ellie Sheehan, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like some of the songs she gets her students to play, University of Tennessee alumna Kelly Ballard has a naturally upbeat way of ...

Candace Hawthorne is the second female drum major in the university marching band’s history Grambling State University’s (GSU) marching band has added a woman to its drum major ranks for the first ...

During Women’s History Month, HBCU Gameday,set out to highlight the legacy of female drum majors across HBCUs. After gathering nearly 40 responses from women who carried the baton for their respective ...

The glass ceiling in the world of FAMU's Marching "100" drum majors has officially been shattered. Dr. Shelby Chipman, Director of Bands, announced Oluwamodupe Oloyede as the head drum major for the ...

EL PASO, Texas (WNDU) - When the Notre Dame football team takes the field on Friday afternoon at the 90th annual Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, so will the Band of the Fighting Irish. Our affiliate KTSM ...

This year, Florida A&M University’s Marching 100 band introduced its first female head drum major, Oluwamodupe “Dupe” Oloyede. Alexa queue, Beyoncé’s “Run the World (Girls).” 2025 has been a notable ...

Marissa Presley, Mariah Presley and Halo Nunn are all drum majors in the school’s marching band. This is their first year serving as drum majors, and it’s also the first time that all three of the ...

Everybody like coming in trying to cheer me on and just really getting excited that I was gonna be the next major. Jackson State senior Arielle Woods relives the moment she was hand picked to be part ...

Of all the leaders on the field during LSU games, Catherine Mansfield is probably the least banged up at this point in the season. “No injuries yet,” she reports. “Sometimes a little bit of a sore ...