The Pride of Palm Springs
Nothing is more quintessentially American than a high school marching band performing in a local parade. It ranks up there with baseball, mom, and apple pie. The beat of the drums, the twirl of the baton, are all a familiar sight in any main street spectacle across the USA, except for one, the Pride Parade.
In the fall of 2006 Palm Springs High School band director Brian Ingelson decided that it was time for his marching band to perform in the Palm Springs Pride Parade. Seven years later, what started out to be a controversial decision, has become one of the bands most meaningful performances of the year. Not only for the students marching in the parade but, for the tens of thousands of Pride Parade spectators.