Towson U. Band Is Sole College Performer in Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

Members of Towson University’s marching band will celebrate Thanksgiving Day this year in a special way — as the only college band scheduled to perform in Macy’s parade in New York City. According to today’s Baltimore Sun, the band will strut its stuff before an audience predicted to approach 50 million, rain or shine, on a day that will start with a 2 a.m. wake-up for a 4 a.m. rehearsal. The band, which was picked two years ago to perform, helped pay its way to the Big Apple ($757 a head) with help from parents, the university’s development office, and the Towson Macy’s. It’s a moment in the limelight that, like the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff band’s show in President Obama’s inaugural parade, any band member would regard as “the coolest thing that could happen.”