Matt Davis plays the marching band’s new sousaphone during the Southeast Alaska State Fair parade last month.
The Haines Community Marching Band finally got its “booming baseline”-the sousaphone-after four years of fundraising, just in time to win first place in the Southeast Alaska State Fair’s parade last month.
“Everybody told me we weren’t a real marching band without a sousaphone,” said Sue Waterhouse, band founder and lead brainstormer behind the hunt.
The brass…
