UMass alumni record smash YouTube hit with UMMB
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers filmed their hit ‘Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts’ music video at UMass Amherst, featuring the UMass Marching Band.
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers filmed their hit ‘Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts’ music video at UMass Amherst, featuring the UMass Marching Band.
Thom Hannum is interviewed in a Halftime Magazine feature on the tradition of UMass Band Day.
Loyal UMMB alumni and band parents have lead the grassroots fundraising effort, with over $1 million in cash and pledges to date.
The Minuteman Marching Band, has been scattered in cramped, deteriorating facilities on and off the University of Massachusetts campus since 1997.
As throngs of people basked in a weekend of warmth and sunshine, the Minutemen Band marched in the 57th Annual Holyoke St. Patrick’s Parade for over 300,000 spectators.
According to band members, there’s no partying, debauchery or infantile shenanigans: Band Camp is all business.
This year and every year, if not to their classy selves, the marching Minutemen are the best band in the land.