The W.D. Packard Concert Band is taking its “March” concert literally. Sunday’s performance will focus on the marches composed by John Philip Sousa, and each song will be directed by a Packard Band ...

What did Americans do before they twerked, twisted, hully-gullied, moonwalked, strolled, shimmied, madisoned, cha-cha'd, charlestoned, lindy-hopped, nae-naed, or did it Gangnam Style? They marched.

While “Congress Hall” the song did not approach the most popularity on Sousa’s hit parade, it did make more recent history when in 2004 a community band from the North Jersey city of Clifton was said ...

Arguably, the most popular early 20th-century visitor to Fort Worth (after Theodore Roosevelt) was bandleader John Philip Sousa. Both were headliners in their day. Roosevelt came to town twice (1905 ...

John Philip Sousa, the king of the American march, used to slip transcriptions of classical composers into his concerts. It gave his players a break from the patriotic, heart-clutching, spirited romps ...