As flames began to envelop the back of the UMass Lowell Marching Band’s charter bus on Oct. 19, senior Glen Njeru barked the command into his phone while rushing 40 of his bandmates out of their seats ...
Bands of America had hundreds, thousands, millions of high school kids pounding on drums or wailing on trumpets or tossing rifles in the air in its hands, and Schaumburg, Illinois, couldn’t hold them ...