UMass Marching Band Alumni

The first college football game at Gillette Stadium has been dubbed, fittingly, the “Colonial Clash.” UMass and New Hampshire, fierce rivals on the gridiron dating back to their Yankee Conference days, through the Atlantic-10 years, and now the Colonial Athletic Association, will renew their storied series on Saturday, Oct. 23 in Foxboro (3:30 p.m.), the [...]

There have been many exciting developments these past two weeks at the Minuteman Band Building site! The Structural Steel Framing has been going up, and the Minuteman Band Building is literally taking shape before our eyes. The steel girders for the building arrived on Thursday, August 12, and since then, tremendous growth has been taking [...]

Carolina Crown (including six Minuteman Band alumni) are rehearsing at McGuirk Alumni Stadium June 30 and July 1.

It feels like a deep, lazy summer day on the UMass Amherst campus, with barely any students walking about. More walls have gone up at the building site, as well as more formwork (the wooden supports) for the wall closest to Grinnell. In addition, the uphill walls now have dirt against them, which has been [...]

Today is overcast in Amherst, but there is still a great deal of progress at the Minuteman Building site. The weather has been rainy and overcast as of late, with a very cool June. On the building site, a large crane-line machine is being used, apparently helping to make the concrete pouring easier. The lower [...]

Jason DeFuria ’10 is trading in his cap and gown this week for a bike helmet and sneakers. to set off on a cross-country trip to raise money and awareness for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

A social network dedicated to capturing the history and pageantry of ensembles making “visual music,” UMass’ own colorguard instructor Frederick Omega Pye recently added the group to the Colorguard Historical Society site.

I was pleasantly surprised when I drove up to the Minuteman Marching Band Building site today. The project is moving along at a fast clip, and I could see the first walls going up. Many steel supports and frameworks are in place, a good chunk of the foundation is down, and it looks like part [...]

Alumni recording artists Stephen Kellogg ’98, Kit “The Goose” Karlson ’98, and Brian “Boots” Factor ’01 from Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers address the graduating class of 2010 with their own brand of music, humor, and great advice. A must see for our whole community. Go UMass, the SK6ERS, and especially 2010 grads!