Two Suffolk natives will be among the 485-member Marching Royal Dukes of James Madison University to perform in the 87th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Stuart Brazil, a freshman at JMU, plays in the band’s trombone section. He is a Nansemond-Suffolk Academy alumnus.

Spencer Jefferson, a freshman athletic training major, plays in the band’s tenor saxophone section. He graduated from King’s Fork High School.

The Marching Royal Dukes date to 1972 when JMU established a football program. Membership in the band is open to all JMU students, regardless of their academic majors. The 2013 band’s members represent 47 academic majors, and more than 400 Marching Royal Dukes are non-music majors. The 485-member band is the largest in JMU’s history.

The JMU band is one of 11 marching bands performing in the parade, and one of only two college bands — the other is the University of Massachusetts Amherst — that were invited to perform. The Marching Royal Dukes were selected from more than 150 applications sent to Macy’s parade committee. This is the band’s third appearance in the parade. It previously performed in the 2001 and 2008 parades.