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Marching Band Represents New Orleans in Parades

NPR

By Audie Cornish

Published February 27, 2006 at 9:57 AM EST

MAX Band Director Lester Wilson and senior drum major Faith Johnson at one of the city's most popular parades, Endymion.

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