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Mississippi State’s Famous Maroon Band earns top national honor

Mississippi State’s Famous Maroon Band is the 2026 recipient of the prestigious national Sudler Trophy, which is considered ...
Mississippi State University

MSU’s Famous Maroon Band receives highest national collegiate band award

The Mississippi State Famous Maroon Band performs during a 1993 halftime show. The first collegiate marching band in ...
KVOA 4

Pride of Arizona Marching Band Receives Prestigious Sudler Trophy

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Pride of Arizona Marching Band has been named the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Sudler Trophy by the John Philip Sousa Foundation, marking the highest honor a college ...
HTR Media

John Philip Sousa’s band played ‘Two Golden Jubilee Concerts’ at Capitol Theatre in 1928

On Aug. 15, 1928, the Manitowoc Herald-News reported “America’s March King” John Philip Sousa and his band was to play “Two Golden Jubilee Concerts” at the Capitol Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 15. The ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

Santa Cruz High School band to perform at the John Philip Sousa Festival in Washington, D.C.

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz High School band was invited to perform this weekend in the concert hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., for the John Philip ...
The Washington Post

Volunteers stand in for the Marines after shutdown cancels celebration

Chorus after chorus of “The Stars and Stripes Forever” rang across John Philip Sousa’s tombstone, as a makeshift band played the composer’s most famed march at the Congressional Cemetery in Southeast ...