Screenshot restored with AI software On a snowy day in January 1961, Sharon Ann Morris, head majorette, Deering High School Marching Band, Portland, Maine, climbed aboard one of three silver passenger buses and headed for Washington, D.C. She, along with her fellow majorettes and band members,...
Today is the Indianapolis 500, and Purdue Twirling will be performing on the race track. Here are some wonderful historic images (negatives) of this long-standing tradition, which we discovered on an Indianapolis 500 Archive. Members of the Purdue University Marching Band make their way down the...
When the Piperettes Still Twirled: Remembering Dorothy Jackson of Tuskegee Institute Long before the bright sequins and high kicks of modern halftime shows, the women of the Tuskegee Institute Crimson Piperettes embodied a quieter kind of elegance, one defined by poise, precision, and the...
The longest running music festival in West Virginia is the Gazette-Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival. Started in 1947, it is dedicated to public high school marching bands and majorette corps in Kanawha County. Since the very beginning, it has featured the Miss Majorette of Kanawha...
On this World Baton Twirling Day, we are privileged to share these fabulous photos of beloved mother, baton twirler M. Sylvia Day. They were taken in the 1960s and generously shared with us by her devoted daughter, Carolyn. Ms. Day grew up in Milk River, Alberta, and has fond memories of marching...
