Listen to those pulsating sounds! Feel the beat of the drums! Nothing
can match the excitement of the first notes heard as the parade steps off.
A parade would not be a parade without music and YOUR HOMETOWN AMERICA
PARADE strives to present the best marching musical units. Each year
twenty-five to thirty top musical units (from world champion drum corps
and award-winning bands to patriotic fife and drum corps and bagpipers)
anxiously await their "moment in the limelight". Always a favorite
are the colorful, world-famous "Mummers" String Bands.
Musical units have traveled from the south,
midwest, northeast, and two Canadian provinces to appear in YOUR HOMETOWN
AMERICA PARADE. The states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, Florida and Pennsylvania have all been represented.
Most have appeared in major parades around the world and across the country
-- the Indy 500 Festival Parade, Fiesta Bowl Parade, Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade, and the King Orange Parade. They have also appeared at Disney
World, Disneyland, Seaworld, Expo in Spokane, WA, and the Cherry Blossom
Festival in Washington, DC.
