All-female marching band from Austin performs in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

By KVUE staff
Published on KVUE-ABC News on November 25
, 2021

NEW YORK — The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders sent its marching band, the Ann Richards Marching Stars, to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The band was led by director Stephen Howard. The band performed Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”

The parade featured about 8,000 participants, four dozen balloons of varying sizes and two dozen floats.  

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