From the "Sunshine Girl" who burst out of Big Bertha at the 50-yard-line to two of the first women allowed to join after ...

A true prodigy, she could read music and play the accordion before she was five and had learned to play piano, bass, guitar, five-string banjo, saxophone ... in the marching band, served on ...

Dionne Randolph has curated the marching band lineup for the Krewe of Muses, the all-female group that hosts the popular parade, for 25 years. For her, Carnival is a restorative time.

The daughter of a career Marine Corps officer, Emmylou grew up in the American South and was a straight-A student, saxophonist in the marching band ... searching for a female vocalist to work ...