"Lord, I thank you" is the Nigerian Yoruba meaning of Oluwamodupe "Dupe" Oloyede's name. "I am truly living up to my name right now." Oluwamodupe Oloyede has been named the new head drum major of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like some of the songs she gets her students to play, University of Tennessee alumna Kelly Ballard has a naturally upbeat way of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a year of firsts for the Penn State Blue Band, a student organization that traces its roots to 1899 — and that continued ...

If you look backward through the history of rock 'n' roll, you'll find that the ratio of women to men has always been, in a word, unbalanced. At the time of this writing in 2025, less than 10 percent ...

RETURNING TO THE VALLEY LATE NEXT WEEK. THANK YOU TOM. IN THE 125 YEAR HISTORY OF THE ICONIC PENN STATE BLUE BAND, THE POSITION OF THE BAND’S LEADING STUDENT, THE DRUM MAJOR, HAS ALWAYS BEEN FILLED BY ...

Fans witnessed a historic moment Saturday as Ellie Sheehan took the field as the Penn State Blue Band's first-ever female drum major. Sheehan, a fifth-year student from Hollidaysburg, has taken over ...

As we celebrate Women's History Month, HBCU Gameday wants to celebrate the queens who have led the heartbeat of HBCUs, their marching bands. For a long time, there have been women who have attained ...

For a group of women, they've got a language all their own, through the power of drumming. They've found that it's therapeutic with every beat, through a recently formed nonprofit called Pittsburgh ...

Florida A&M University's famed Marching "100" has reached a historic milestone. Dr. Shelby Chipman, director of Bands, has named Oluwamodupe "Dupe" Oloyede as head drum major for the 2025–2026 season, ...