Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State is inviting both high school musicians and alumni members of the Famous Maroon Band to participate Sept. 16 in the university's 2006 Band Day celebration.
The high school students will be joining the 128-year-old institution's venerable marching unit and the Famous Maroon Alumni Band for performances during halftime of the MSU Bulldogs' 7 p.m. football game with Tulane University.
The massed high school band will include players of brass, woodwind and percussion (except pit percussion) instruments, as well as members of flag line and twirler corps. A $20 registration fee will include game admission, a souvenir T-shirt and lunch.
"Band Day is high school students' opportunity to get a taste for performing with a major college unit," said director Elva Kay Lance. "They also will be deeply immersed in the game-day excitement for which Davis Wade Stadium and Scott Field are famous."
Lance, a former member of the Famous Maroon Band and its leader for the past five years, said interested students may register via www.msstate.edu/org/band. Early sign-ups are being encouraged, she added.
As for FMB alumni, this year's assembly will begin with a noon "tailgate reunion" at the big-top tent on the McCarthy Gymnasium front lawn. Party tickets are $15 per person; $10 for children 12 years and younger.
Sept 11 is the alumni registration deadline.
Additional details on Band Day 2006 also are available at the above listed Web address.