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While Louisiana's annual party dates back to 1699, the Two Boots event, created as a benefit for the nonprofit Lower East Side Girls Club, owes its existence to a smaller-scale, improvised 2008 marching-band parade undertaken by the restaurateur, filmmaker and Howl!
Big Easy in the Big Apple Bruce Bennett 2011
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In 1985, my summer weeks were otherwise punctuated by grass-cutting, D&D sessions, and marching-band practice.
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Trustees of Florida A&M University rejected calls to suspend the school's president Monday amid a scandal over a marching-band member's death following a hazing incident.
Florida College Resists Call to Suspend President Cameron McWhirter 2011
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Expanding his sonic palette as never before, Mr. Argue consciously integrated music from different cultures of Brooklyn for the multimedia piece by adding elements of Balkan brass, French café music and even marching-band music.
Razing a New Tower of Babel Tad Hendrickson 2011
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In my old marching-band days, we used to say the worst place to be in a parade was behind the horses, and in front of the fire engines ... demd
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As always, Stephen Perkins proves to be one of rock's great drummers, and his interplay with Mr. Navarro, his high-school marching-band buddy, is one of the disc's savory treats.
Breaking Old Habits Jim Fusilli 2011
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Four years later England are still musically in marching-band territory, but again the emotional register has switched.
After a chequered history the England World Cup song is dead 2010
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That's the theme at the Bayou Classic, a showcase of superior marching-band performances bookended by a matchup of SWAC rivals now in its 37th year.
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Like giant, Las Vegas, feathered, marching-band, sequined explosions of sparkle and poof.
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It all comes from a kind of big-band, I mean marching-band society, and it blares and it proclaims, but it doesn't really affirm.
Christopher Lydon: Yehudi Wyner's life in music: composer with piano hands 2010
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