For members of the Fishers High School Marching Band, Tuesday started out as a normal school day.  Little did they know a big announcement awaited them.

Wesley Whatley, creative director of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade^® and head of the Parade’s Band selection committee, was there to make the special announcement inviting Fishers High School Marching Tiger Band to the 2023 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Macy’s Parade staff, working secretly with school officials, including band director Chad Kohler, surprised members of the marching band with the news Tuesday morning that they have been selected out of hundreds of nationwide applicants to be one of nine selected marching bands in the 97^th edition of the annual holiday tradition.