What is a marching band exactly?
You can call them a group in which instrumental musicians perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition.
Oh that sounds hard! what instruments do they play?
Marching band
A marching band is a group in which instrumental musicians perform while marching, often for entertainment or competition. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Most marching bands wear a uniform, often of a military style, that includes an associated organization's colors, name or symbol. Most high school marching bands, and some college marching bands, are accompanied by a color guard, a group of performers who add a visual interpretation to the music through the use of props, most often flags,
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Arts, entertainment, and media Music.
- Musical ensemble, a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music
- Band (rock and pop), a small ensemble that plays rock or pop
- Concert band, an ensemble of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments
- Dansband, band playing popular music for a partner-dancing audience
- Jazz band, a musical ensemble that plays jazz music
- Marching band, a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors