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The new band would be run by a professional band director and staff, as opposed to the Pep Band, whose director and managing board were elected from among its student members. The University of Virginia student council passed a resolution in February 2004 asking for the cooperative "coexistence of two bands," both the faculty and the student ...
UNC Tar Heels pep band. A pep band is an ensemble of instrumentalists who play at events, usually at basketball games, with the purpose of entertaining and creating enthusiasm in a crowd. [1] Often members of a pep band are a subset of people from a larger ensemble such as a marching band or a concert band.
1966: First indoor concert of the Marching Band (Band-O-Rama) 1978: Brass Band formed. Marching Band played their first professional basketball game for the L.A. Lakers at The Forum. 1983: Performed in the Fetes de Geneve Music Festival in Geneva, Switzerland. 1994: Band suspended. 1995: "Stadium" band reinstated; plays in the stands only
In the fall of 1996, [5] the history of the William & Mary Pep Band began. It began as a similar institution to the Marching Band, in that it was a one credit class run by the Department of Music. Then, in the fall of 1998, the Athletic department took over the management of the Pep Band.
A pep band had never before played for a basketball game in the Garden, but they were to become the first. Nineteen pep band members boarded a bus for New York City and using markers and an old bed sheet, they fashioned a makeshift sign with the words "The Mighty Sound of the South" and the name is still used for members of the current ...
During the 1970’s, a band called The Eagleaires played the Eagles Fight Song from the dugout at Veterans Stadium. The song came back into light in 1997, when Bobby Mansure, founder of an unofficial Eagles pep band, asked team management to allow the band to play in the parking lot during home games. Management gave Mansure's pep band an ...
Since then, the band has gone through several periods of activity and inactivity. The band has had a number of directors throughout its history. The most famous was Harold Bachman, [5] a nationally renowned band leader, who served from 1935 until the band's demise sometime in the early 1940s. The current pep band does not have a professional ...
The Tiger Pep Band at DePauw University (TPB) is a student-led, -organized, and -funded ensemble at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.The band has been recognized several times among the best in collegiate sports, promoting sportsmanship and civility, and has been hailed as "best pep band in Division III athletics [1]".