The Dakota High School Marching Band kept up its tradition of playing a mini-concert after performing their musical repertoire for a nationally-televised audience as part of America’s Thanksgiving Parade in downtown Detroit.

Crowds in New York City bundled up to take in the latest version of a tradition that has run for nearly a century.

The parade, which started on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and closed at the iconic Macy’s Herald Square flagship store on 34th Street, included dozens of balloons, floats, clown groups and marching ban...