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Muskegon Big Red Band
HISTORY of the MUSIC PROGRAM
Muskegon High School Band - 1912
MHS Band 1912
  
 
1920-21 Muskegon High School Band and Orchestra
 
 
 
1925-26 Muskegon High Band
 
Muskegon's new High School - 1927
 
Muskegon's new High School - 1927
 
Muskegon Football edition 1928 
 
Muskegon High School's monthly edition of the Said and Done from fall of 1928 
 
William Stewart - Muskegon High School - 1936  The "Band Mothers" - the predecessor to the Band and Orchestra Parents Association, was organized by new band director William Stewart in 1936.  
 
First on Stewart's agenda - new band uniforms.   
 		  
 
Fans were treated to an unusual performance by the Big Red Marching Band during the annual Muskegon - Muskegon Heights football game in 1953. The show focused on American holidays, and this segment, highlighted Easter,   Featured the use of black light, the band became only the third in America to use the system for a half-time show.
Majorettes Sharon Pederson, Joyce Marshall, Pat Wirtz, Patricia Somero and Kay Fearnly		  
A Spread Eagle - one of many formation
from the halftime shows used during the 1953 season 
 
The Block M from the fall of 1965