by hinkle | Jan 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
KTLA-TV has closed the voting on a poll to select the best band in the 2011 Rose Parade, and the Western Carolina University Pride of the Mountains Marching Band finished with 72,287 votes – 40 percent of all votes cast in the poll and the most of any of the...
by hinkle | Jan 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
KTLA-TV is sharing video footage from all of the bands, including Western Carolina University’s Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, that marched in the Rose Parade. Visit the station’s web site to watch video of the WCU band to vote for WCU as the best...
by hinkle | Jan 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
The WCU Pride of the Mountains Marching Band performed “You” by California ska band Suburban Legends in the Rose Parade on Jan. 1 in honor of the late Ryan Dallas Cook, who helped write the song as a member of Suburban Legends and who was a marching band enthusiast....
by hinkle | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Enjoy comments from WCU students who marched in the 2011 Rose Parade and the fans who went to see them. Several comments reference the sharp turn in the 5.5-mile route – a 110-degree turn on to Colorado Boulevard. “When we made the turn, there were people just lined...
by hinkle | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
In the videos below filmed by WCU graduate student Daryll Victorio, watch a Western Carolina University Pride of the Mountains Marching Band member give drumsticks to a 2011 Rose Parade-goer and invite him to play during a parade break and the reaction of Bob Buckner,...
by hinkle | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. The band received high praise from WCU band directors and Chancellor John W. Bardo upon its return to the hotel after the Rose Parade. Fans, family and alumni lined the hall and cheered as band members entered the building...
by hinkle | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
by hinkle | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Matt Henley, assistant director of the Western Carolina University Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, shared these photos taken during the Rose Parade. Henley said that everyone finished the parade in strong spirits and that the response to the WCU band was...
by hinkle | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to the WCU Pride of the Mountains Marching Band for its performance in the 2011 Rose Parade. (In case you missed it, the Hallmark Channel will rebroadcast the parade at 1 p.m. New Year’s Day.) The band worked hard to get to Pasadena, Calif.,...
by hinkle | Jan 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Check out the band getting ready for its official Rose Parade photo here. Band members sure won’t be standing still when you see them in a few minutes. (Update: KTLA posted video of the bands, including the WCU band, in the Rose Parade.)
Slide #8 tells the whole story of the Pride of the Mountains performance in this parade. It's one thing to…
soooooooooooo pround of you all Go WCU
I hope when the Spring semester starts students will go out of their way to congratulate any band member they…
Even though I am a MOUNTAINEER through and through, I am so happy and proud of the CATAMOUNTS for their…
Congrats to Bob Buckner and the WCU Band. It's been a LONG time since I was in Buckner's band in…