Onstage, kids tapped their feet, pursed their lips and puffed out their cheeks. In the audience, parents and band directors puffed out their chests. About 200 musically talented junior high students ...

Needles, Calif. — AS the desert sun slides behind the mountains and the temperature dips, members of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribal Band assemble in a parking lot to rehearse. Mothers with clarinets to ...

Residents of the Coulee Region will have a very special and historic musical opportunity when the New Sousa Band makes a scheduled appearance in Westby on Wednesday, May 10. More than 100 years ago, ...

John Philip Sousa had been a conductor since 1878 and had been a musician since about 1861. The Famous Sousa Band, his own organization, has been in existence for nearly forty years and for the twenty ...

For some people it isn’t summer until they’ve had their first hot dog at a backyard barbeque or sunk their toes in the sand at the beach. In the Lehigh Valley, however, many locals will swear that ...

The Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band boasts certain standout qualities that make them among the wackiest bands around. For instance, the 40-member band, which plays marching music, will not march under ...

Monday marks the 152nd anniversary of the birth of American musician John Philip Sousa. Each year on this day, the U.S. Marine Band performs at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C., to honor ...

When New Holland Band director Kenneth Laudermilch takes the stage at Fulton Opera House this weekend, not only will he be conducting the music of John Philip Sousa, but he also will be holding the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee has removed Gary Sousa as band director, five months after the band issued a statement saying it was in a "bitter battle" with the school's athletic department and ...