If this were a “normal” year, the Northwestern Wildcat Marching Band – which bills itself as “The Finest Band in the Land” – would be revving up for Saturday’s big game against the Maryland Terrapins.

[Photo by Liz DeCarlo/Chicago Parent] Chris De Notto, Chicago; Billy Yates, Chicago; Jed Feder, Colorado; and Lukas Gross, 11, Evanston, march together at Northwestern University. Every fall, the ...

Raise the right knee, bring it across the body, bring it back, stick the landing while shifting one’s weight to the right. Western band members drilled this move repeatedly at a practice last week.

INDIANAPOLIS — All but two schools had been called as 10 marching bands stood on the field Saturday evening at Lucas Oil Stadium. Members of the Western Marching Panther Band and Guard stood arms ...