photo: Creative Commons / Aries Liang
The Marching Illini at the 2004 Marching Festival. The Marching Illini was the second band to ever be awarded the prestigious Louis Sudler Intercollegiate Marching Band Trophy in 1983, after only the Michigan Marching Band
photo: Creative Commons / Ben Schumin.
The Resist in Radicalize perform a cheer in front of the AFL-CIO headquarters before joining the main march. Despite the name, derived from the Million Man March, the Million Worker March neither consisted of a million workers (attendance was estimated at 10,000 people according to local news reports), nor an actual march
photo: Creative Commons / Slashme
Dyke March at Gay Pride in Toronto, Canada 2007. yke March is a mostly lesbian-led and inclusive gathering and protest march much like the original gay pride parades and marches.
photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
Anti-war protesters march through Washington, on Saturday, March 20, 2010.
photo: Creative Commons / Spisak, P.
The Marching Chiefs form a guitar at Doak Campbell Stadium. Since 1949, the name Marching Chiefs has served as the official title of the marching band of The Florida State University.
photo: Creative Commons
Marche de Nouakchott - A cote du marche couvert
photo: Creative Commons / Ybbor
Some marching bands have their members hold music on lyres attached to the instrument. The traditional music of the marching band is the military march, but since show bands also evolved from the concert and brass band traditions, music has always been varied.
photo: AP / Akira Suemori
Demonstrators march for jobs, justice and the climate, in central London, Saturday, March 28, 2009.
photo: AP / Rob Griffith
Protestors in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, March 1, 2005, hold up peak hour traffic as they march through the streets chanting free Palestine. The protest march coincided with the President of Israel Moshe Katsav's state visit to Aus
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Six-month March from India to Tibet begans today
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Six-month March from India to Tibet begans today
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Six-month March from India to Tibet begans today
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Six-month March from India to Tibet begans today
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Six-month March from India to Tibet begans today
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
Six-month March from India to Tibet begans today
photo: Public Domain / Edwin Forbes, 1839-1895
Saint Patrick's Day celebration, Union Army. Irish Brigade holds a steeplechase race, March 17, 1863.
photo: AP / Franklin Reyes
Members of Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, demonstrate during a march in Havana, Wednesday, March 17, 2010
photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
MARCH 21, 2009 , CCP COMPLEX , PHILIPPINES - FILIPINO CHILD HOLDING A BIDA MARCH FLAG WITH HIS PARENT WHO DEPARTED CCP TO MARCH IN QUIRINO GRANDSTAND IN PARTICIPATION TO THE GUINESS WORLD OF RECORDS OF " BATANG IWAS DROGA " ( BIDA ) ANTI GRUG GRAND MARCH ORGANIZED BY PHILIPPINE GAMING CORPORATION ( PAGCOR ) CHAIRMAN & CEO, EFRAIM " KUYA EFREN " C. GENUINO AND PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT GLORIA M. ARROYO ( GMA).
photo: Freelance photographer / Mr. Sonam Tsering
Peace March to Tibet from India begun at Dharamsala
photo: army.mil
Registration open for 2007 Bataan Memorial Death March
photo: AP / Edgar Romero
People, carrying images of late Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, take part in a march honoring him in San Salvador, Saturday, March 20, 2010.
photo: Creative Commons / Yomasta
Florida State Marching Chiefs, the largest collegiate marching band in the world. Another innovation that appeared at roughly the same time as the field show and marching in formations was the fight song. University fight songs are often closely associated with a university's band.
photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
MARCH 21, 2009 , CCP COMPLEX , PHILIPPINES - FILIPINO CHILD HAPPLIY WAVES HIS BIDA MARCH FLAG WITH HIS PARENT WHO DEPARTED CCP TO MARCH IN QUIRINO GRANDSTAND IN PARTICIPATION TO THE GUINESS WORLD OF RECORDS OF " BATANG IWAS DROGA " ( BIDA ) ANTI GRUG GRAND MARCH ORGANIZED BY PHILIPPINE GAMING CORPORATION ( PAGCOR ) CHAIRMAN & CEO, EFRAIM " KUYA EFREN " C. GENUINO AND PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT GLORIA M. ARROYO ( GMA).
photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
Members of pro-Kremlin youth movement Nashi march to the U.S. Embassy as they hold the movement's flag, during a protest in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 3, 2008.
photo: WhiteHouse Infocus Photo
Middle East Trip: March 17 - March 20 (WhiteHouse Infocus Photo) KLeo
photo: AP / Ashwini Bhatia
India Tibet Protest March
photo: AP / Akira Suemori
Demonstrators march in central London, Saturday, March 28, 2009. Thousands of working people joined the march from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park to call on the G20 leaders, who will have a meeting on the global economic crisis in London on April 2, to 'put people first' and to listen to their concerns
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric J. Rowley
Navy Band Northwest Members march in to the auditorium at the Naval Undersea Warfare Museum to perform their show Forward March for a full crowd.
photo: AP / Ashwini Bhatia
Exiled Tibetans hold a protest march in Dharmsala, India, Saturday, March 22, 2008. Hundreds of demonstrators carrying Tibetan and Indian flags marched Saturday through the streets of the northern Indian city of Dharmsala to pledge support for the Dalai Lama and voice their disapproval of China's crackdown in the region
photo: Creative Commons / Fumo
The Marching Illini, the first band to perform a halftime show at a football game. The marching band originated with traveling musicians who performed together at festivals and celebrations throughout the ancient world.