The Tamaqua Area High School Raider Marching Band is having a banner year in more ways than one.

The group unveiled new uniforms at the start of the 2014-15 school year, just in time for football season.And this week, the band premiered a stylish new parade banner.Band officers marched out of the high school-middle school campus Wednesday to provide a preview of the new design."We used the emblem from the Tamaqua Senior High School Girls Drum and Bugle Corps," said Mark Beltz, band director.The symbol of a bugle superimposed over a bass drum was a traditional logo used by the girls bugle corps.While the banner pays homage to the legendary bugle corps, the Raider Band's new uniforms salute the THS Boys Band by featuring a dramatic cape and Old English letter T.Both musical organizations were considered exemplary and both were predecessors to today's marching band, nicknamed The Pride of Tamaqua.The new banner was designed by Brianna Heck, a tuba player in the band's low brass section.The banner will be seen by the public for the first time at the annual Memorial Day parade.