Luke March, tuba player, heads toward the practice field at the Home School Building in Wyoming, where The Northern Lights Marching Band meets on Wednesdays. March is wearing a souvenir T-shirt from the band’s 2006 parade season.

Tyler Stitt plays saxophone for the Northern Lights home-school marching band in a parade this summer.

Northern Lights band members march in the Muskegon Summer Celebration this summer. The band is made of up elementary through high school home-school students from throughout West Michigan.

Banner carriers lead the way for the Northern Lights in a parade in Coral. The band performs in community parades and festivals throughout the summer.

Josh Zuidema, on trumpet, joins other members of the home-school marching band for Wednesday morning practice.