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2 unusual facts about Marching band


Battle of La Concepción

Concepcion is one of Peru's Heroic Cities and on the day of the Peruvian victory, in its honor a national youth Marching band competition is held here.

Sainik School, Amaravathinagar

Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir


1951 NFL season

Supporting groups such as its fan club and its marching band remained in operation and worked for the team's revival (which eventually led to a new Baltimore team in 1953).

Carl Andrew Weinman

A musically-talented trumpet player in his youth, he joined the musician's union at the age of 14 and worked his way through the University of Michigan, directing the marching band for two years.

Comparison of Canadian football and rugby union

During the period entertainment is be played for the crowd, ranging from marching band performances in high school and college games to big-name entertainment (e.g. U2 and Prince) for the Super Bowl.

Dinner and a Movie

For example, an episode showing Drumline features a recipe titled "The Beets Go On", referencing the Sonny & Cher single "The Beat Goes On", as well as the plot of the movie about a drummer who tries to fit in with a new marching band.

Dino DiMuro

Leo Kottke style instrumentals exist alongside Chipmunk vocals, songs about Nudists and other odd subjects, many unconventional love songs, marching band or orchestra productions on synthesizer, quirky biographical numbers, avant-garde works, and experiments (such as an effective guitar solo, processed to sound like rubber bands).

Dorothy Sloop

This song is now the official rock song of the U.S. state of Ohio, and it is performed often by the marching band of The Ohio State University and at Progressive Field where the professional baseball team the Cleveland Indians play.

Edwardsburg, Michigan

In addition to athletics, Edwardsburg also boasts a flight IV Marching Band.

Elon University Fire of the Carolinas Marching Band

The Fire of the Carolinas, the marching band at Elon University, is a contemporary ensemble that performs at all Phoenix home football games.

Gasparilla Pirate Festival

In all parades, area high schools and universities provide marching bands, majorettes, and drill teams as part of the festivities.

Lake Park Marching Band

The Lake Park Marching Band (LPMB) is a US High School competitive marching band based out of Lake Park High School located in Roselle, Illinois USA.

Mechanicsburg High School Marching Band

The Mechanicsburg High School Marching Band is a marching band from the Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mia Mäkilä

In 2008 Mia Mäkilä did the album cover and booklet art for Spark Large, the first full-length album by Marching Band.

Room to Roam

The song, which refers to Spiddal, where much of Fisherman's Blues and all of Room to Roam were recorded, is arranged in a style that is a blend of folk music and New Orleans-style marching band music.

The Band That Wouldn't Die

The film follows the story of Baltimore's Marching Ravens, a marching band that has supported three separate American football franchises since 1947 and witnessed the controversial relocation of the National Football League's (NFL) Baltimore Colts franchise to Indianapolis in 1984.

The HBK Gang

Iamsu! was born Sudan Ahmeer Williams in Richmond, California, on November 17, 1989, and was an early fan of artists such as Kanye West, R. Kelly, Aaliyah, Marching Band, and reggae music.

Warwick Veterans High School

Warwick Veterans also has a concert band that performs several concerts a year, a marching band that plays at parades on Veterans Day and Gaspee Day, and a jazz band and concert orchestra that usually perform with the concert band — all are run by Danielle Prior.


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Allen Eagle Escadrille

The Allen Eagle Escadrille has also received "Sweepstakes" Division I ratings at the Marching Band University Interscholastic League Competition for over the past 20 years.

Beach Channel High School

The marching band has performed at various Halloween, St. Patrick's, ethnic pride and Memorial Day parades in Manhattan and Queens and has performed Walt Disney World on two separate occasions.

Bearkat Marching Band

Beginning with the 2011 football team's undefeated regular season, the Bearkat Marching Band plays DJ Khaled's hit song All I Do Is Win after victories.

Burlington County Special Services School District

Saying that he "didn't even know it was a paying job" when he was elected to the Assembly in 1995, Superintendent Carmine DeSopo announced in 1996 that he would donate his entire $35,000 annual salary from the Assembly to the school district's marching band and to a camp the district runs for adult graduates.

Cavalier Marching Band

In addition to the band, over three hundred high school marching band students accompanied them on the field, playing three pieces Hugo had helped produce: Justin Timberlake's Like I Love You, No Doubt's Hella Good, and N*E*R*D's She Wants to Move.

Centerville High School Performing Arts Center

The after school program features the marching band, Centerville Jazz Band, the Winter Guard and Winter Percussion (indoor percussion ensemble), three jazz ensembles (Jazz I, Jazz II, and Jazz III), the Basketball Pep Band (BBPB).

Craig Littlepage

A donation from Carl Smith allowed the formation of the Cavalier Marching Band.

Erk Russell

After Erk received Vince Dooley's okay, Russell called Roger Dancz, the director of Georgia's Redcoat Marching Band, and suggested that if the Bulldogs ever did something good on the field, how about cranking up a few bars of Jim Croce's "Bad, bad Leroy Brown."

Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band

Notable alumni of the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band included Jones, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Dr. Michael White, Joe Torregano, Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen, Charles and Kirk Joseph, Lucien Barbarin, Gene Olufemi, and Shannon Powell.

Fireproof Recording

Fireproof Recording is currently located in Los Angeles, California, where Lasus has worked with indie artists Marching Band, Anders Parker, Oliver Future, Army Navy, Matt Keating, Kelli Scarr, The Shivers, Noah And The MegaFauna, Emperor X, The Orbans and Son Of Stan.

Fort Flagler State Park

Every August, the Kamiak Show Band holds its annual "band camp," during which band members learn new music, prepare for the upcoming marching band season, and rehearse in sessions enjoyed by members of the visiting public.

Greg Scruggs

After playing the quad drums in the school marching band for three years and varsity basketball for two, he reluctantly joined the football team his senior year, at the behest of head coach Steve Specht.

Harbour Pointe Middle School

The marching band has travelled to Disneyland multiple times (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009) to participate in the Disney Magic Music Days program.

Herminio Giménez

At the early age of 11 he was already part of the Paraguarí music band and two years later he was hired to be part of the Asunción marching band.

Indiana State Fair

Other competitions also occur including art contests, a hot air balloon race, and a high school marching band contest on "Band Day".

Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts

The Center opened in 1978 following the formation of the Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps (now the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band.

Kendall Morris

Morris is a baton twirler with the TCU Marching Band, and she performed at the 2011 Rose Bowl and the 2010 Fiesta Bowl.

Kingsway Regional High School

In November 2005, the Kingsway Dragon Marching Band became the Group II Champion at the Cavalcade of Bands championship at Hersheypark Stadium for its show based on the rock opera Tommy by The Who.

Lenape High School

The Lenape Marching Band also had previously won Class I Championships in 1993 and 1994 and Class II Championships in 1996 and 1997 as part of the Eastern Marching Band Association.

Men of Harlech

The song was played by the marching band of Punahou School, Barack Obama's alma mater, at his second inauguration in 2013.

Michael Nakasone

In 2004, Nakasone retired his position as the band director of the Pearl City Marching Band and 37 years with the Hawaii DOE to become the band director of the Royal Hawaiian Band.

Miss Mykie

Despite the tragedy, she later became a dancer for Howard's Showtime Marching Band, and a soror of the Alpha chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Morgantown High School

The Morgantown High School Red & Blue Marching Band performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in November 2009 and the 2013 Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California.

Natchitoches Christmas Festival

Country music singer Frank Foster will the Grand Marshall for 2013 and make an appearance in the parade as well as perform on December 7th at 4pm to 6pm, the Northwestern State University Marching Band, several high school marching bands, dance teams from around Louisiana, the winners of local beauty pageants including Miss Merry Christmas and the Christmas Belles, and, of course, Santa Claus.

Neutron Man

Always seated by the marching band, King would burst into his original dances whenever the Ohio State University Marching Band would play the “Neutron Dance”.

Nicolino Pellegrini

In 1912 he founded the Police marching band of Asunción and eventually formed the finest Paraguayan composers and musicians such as Agustín Pío Barrios, José Asunción Flores (teach the foundations for the guarania), Remberto Giménez and Herminio Giménez.

OCMA

Orange Coast Musical Arts, a homeschool marching band in Orange County, California

Ocoee High School

The Marching Band has performed in the Cotton Bowl Music Festival, the Florida Citrus Parade, the Ikea Thanksgiving Parade, multiple Under Armour Football All-American Games that were broadcast on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), multiple Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades at Universal Studios Florida, and the New York City Veteran's Day Parade.

Rebel Regiment

The Berrien High School Rebel Regiment is an award-winning class AA marching band from Nashville, Georgia.

Robert Briggs

Robert O. Briggs (1927–2008), director of the University of California Marching Band

Shawn Mullins

Later, he honed his craft in his college days at North Georgia College and State University as a solo acoustic musician and bandmaster of the military marching band (Golden Eagle Band).

Southern University

The Southern University marching band, nicknamed the "Human Jukebox", has been featured in television commercials, music videos and invited to participate in the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, Presidential Inauguration ceremonies and 4 Super Bowl halftime presentations.

Strongsville High School

Strongsville's marching band, the "Marching Mustangs," has participated in the Hollywood Christmas Parade, the Orange Bowl Parade, the Tournament of Roses Parade, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and in the Inauguration Parade for President George H.W. Bush.

Thalia Zedek

Zedek grew up in the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C. She attended Springbrook High School in Maryland, where she played clarinet in the marching band under band director Charles Sickafus.

The All American Trumpeters

The All American Trumpeters, now known as The Trumpeteers, started life as a small marching band in Sunflex, Alabama, USA.

The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way

USC band director James Pritchard obtained a band arrangement of the Elmer Bernstein-penned song "Step to the Rear" from the Broadway musical How Now, Dow Jones in 1968 and the marching band played the song at the first game of the 1968 season.

University of Cincinnati Bearcat Bands

The UC Marching Band also performed at the 1975 National League Play-offs and World Series, the 1976 World Series and a Monday Night Football for the Cincinnati Bengals.

University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band

The Cornhusker Marching Band has been the recipient of many honors over the years, including the John Philip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Trophy in 1996.

Westminster Senior High School

The Westminster High School Owls Marching Band is the first band from Maryland to participate in a Bands of America competition, including the Grand National Championships held in the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Withered Hand

They are also occasionally joined by Pam Berry of 90s US band Black Tambourine & various members of the Second Hand Marching Band.

Wyoming Area School District

These activities include Chess Club, Key Club, Builder's Club, Student Council, Art Club, FBLA, SADD, TATU, Marching Band, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Indoor Percussion, Chorus and Drama.

York Suburban Senior High School

The York Suburban Marching Band had the privilege of performing the Star Spangled Banner before Game 4 of the 1970 World Series, between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cincinnati Reds.