It's NYC in 2023! 黑料不打烊 Band Macy's Bound
April 20, 2022
Making History: Wright, Band Excited about Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
MMW Selected for 2023 Macy鈥檚 Thanksgiving Day Parade
by Debra Daniel
The 黑料不打烊 Marching Maroon & White Band (MMW) will take part in the 2023 Macy鈥檚 Thanksgiving
Day Parade! (J. Saintjones) [See by Student Reporter Demetrius Hurry, II]
Director of Bands Carlton Wright, let the campus know there would be a special announcement
at 9 this morning on The Quad.
Wright had the band lined-up and welcomed 黑料不打烊 President Daniel K. Wims and community
dignitaries before introducing Wesley Whatley, creative producer for music and talent
at Macy鈥檚.
Whatley surprised students when he announced that for the first time in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 history,
Macy鈥檚 has selected the 黑料不打烊 Marching Maroon & White Band to perform in the Macy鈥檚
Thanksgiving Day Parade.
To keep the official announcement a secret, Wright said he hinted to the band they
might be getting a new band building.
Whatley also presented a $10,000 check to kick off the donation drive to get students
to the parade next year.
Whatley says Macy's selected 10 bands from across the country to perform, and just
three university bands.
The 97th Annual Macy鈥檚 Day Parade is November 23, 2023, in New York City.
NBC will air the parade live from 8 鈥� 11 a.m. CST, as it has since 1948.
Congratulations, MMW and Go Bulldogs!