UMass Marching Band Alumni

Well, it appears Spring is finally here…for real!  There are blue skies out; I’ve been seeing some lovely purple flowers bursting out of the ground; and the temperatures are a bit warmer.  Fingers crossed…this is really Spring!

Old Chapel, the iconic symbol of the Sesquicentennial Celebration, has been shuttered since 1996. Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy recently established the Old Chapel Renovation Advisory Committee to assist in developing a plan for its renovation and repurposing. Specifically, the Chancellor is asking our Committee to suggest the optimal use or uses of the renovated Old [...]

There’s only a small amount of snow left on the ground on the UMass campus, and the Hoop Band is rarin’ to go to the NIT to support the men’s basketball team…it must be Spring!  We’re almost at the halfway point of the semester (Spring Break is this week), and we’ve had quite a bit [...]

The UMMB is featured in the March issue of SOCO Magazine! The article looks back on our history and ahead to the band’s very bright future! Article appears on pages 53-55.

Staff Sgt. Glenn Robertson (UMass ’05), a drummer in the U.S. Army Field Band‘s rock group, The Volunteers, shares how he tells the Army story across the country through music.

As with many of the brightest stars, it is often not until their light is extinguished that we fully realize the impact they have had upon our lives, and so it was with George…