Photo: #Richard Tuttle directs the Ada-Borup High School Pep Band during the State High School Boys Basketball quarter finals Thursday. The band features three to four guitarists, multiple basses and vocals. They do all original arrangements and compositions, including a rap about the tiny town of Ada, Minn.
The Ada-Borup High School Pep Band plays at halftime of the Class A Boy's High School Basketball tournament, March 26, 2009. (MPR Video/Jim Bickal)
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Small town pep band rocks B-Ball tourney

by Curtis Gilbert, Minnesota Public Radio
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Ada-Borup plays Ellsworth today in the Minnesota High School Boys Basketball semifinals. Ada-Borup is a class A school, with only 179 students. Close to half of them play in the pep band, and as director Richard Tuttle explains, it's not your usual pep band.

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