“The Pride of West Virginia” will be performing during the 90th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday morning. The Mountaineer Marching Band is schedule to perform at the traditional 34th Street stop at 9:50 a.m., and can be seen on NBC. Mountaineers across the world will be able to watch and hear the band perform “Strike Up the Band” followed by Country Roads as the band exits the TV spotlight.
For those who were in attendance during halftime of the WVU-Oklahoma football game on Saturday, you saw the performance of for the first time. As the only collegiate marching band of the 10 selected this year, The Mountaineer Marching Band had their drums already decked for the occasion on Saturday night as they played in a snowy, blustery Milan Puskar Stadium.