About 256 students from Alabama A&M University‘s Marching Maroon and White will lead the pack in the 97th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The students and Director of University Bands Carlton Wright will travel over 900 miles by bus to perform in the parade, held annually in New York City.
The Dancin’ Divas, an auxiliary unit of the marching band will also be featured in a special performance with the famous Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, according to an announcement by the university, one of 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the U.S.
The achievement, comes two years after Wright saw marching bands from the University of Alabama and Hampton University, his own alma mater, perform in the parade – an experience that got Wright thinking about what it would take to get his students to perform in the parade.
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