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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off the holidays with unparalleled pomp and pageantry. The scale of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is immense: more than 3.5 million people view the parade live along the parade route, and more than 50 million viewers tune in to the television broadcast. Spectators watch in awe as 10,000 participants — including the nation's best marching bands, performance groups, giant helium balloons, breathtaking floats and the one-and-only Santa Claus — pass before their eyes.

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Each year, top marching bands of all varieties from across the country are invited to represent their states in the annual parade. In addition, the Macy's Great American Marching Band returns to the parade route each November with more than 250 participants representing all 50 states.

• Alcorn State University Sounds of Dyn-O-Mite Marching Band, Alcorn, Mississippi
• Banda de Música La Primavera, Santiago, Veraguas, Panama
• L.D. Bell High School Blue Raider Band, Hurst, Texas
• Catawba Ridge High School Marching Band, Fort Mill, South Carolina
• Damien High School Spartan Regiment, La Verne, California
• Macy's Great American Marching Band, USA
• NYPD Marching Band, New York
• Northern Arizona University Lumberjack Marching Band, Flagstaff, Arizona
• Spartans Drum & Bugle Corps, Nashua, New Hampshire
• Temple University Diamond Marching Band, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• University of North Alabama Marching Band, Florence, Alabama

Thursday, November 27, 2025
Thursday, November 26, 2026 - 100th Annual
Thursday, November 25, 2027
Thursday, November 23, 2028
(Always held on Thanksgiving Day)

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