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For the past 10 years, HBCUs and their high school counterparts have met on a football field in Durham to prove their mettle. The high schools compete – including the Durham rivalry of Hillside High versus Southern High – and the universities show them the level they can reach. On Sunday, the 10th Annual Adrian Carroll Battle of the Bands [...]

Jonathan Figgers, a student at Winston-Salem State University, is the winner of a $10,000 scholarship from the 105 Voices of History HBCU National Concert Choir. Figgers, a bass from Charlotte, was one of two students who represented WSSU at the event in September at the Andrew Mellon Stage in Washington. He started participating in rehearsals around the country in April [...]

ASU’s marching band will showcase their road to the Magic City Classic in October with a partnership with NBTV Live Media Network with the mini series “Magic Before the Classic.” Filming, which started August 5, 2012, will begin their journey at the start of the band’s preseason camp and run all the way to the first “Battle of the Bands” [...]

The South Carolina State University gets down and gets crunk at the 2012 Honda Battle of the Bands.

The Tennessee State University Aristocrat of Bands doing their thing at the 2012 Honda Battle of the Bands. Shout out to TSU for celebrating 100 years.

Check out the Bethune-Cookman University Marching Wildcats at the 2012 Honda Battle of the Bands

Check out the Winston-Salem State Red Sea of Sound Marching band at the 2012 Honda Battle of the Bands.

After watching this performance at the 2012 Honda Battle of the Bands, it’s easy to see why Albany State has one of the best bands in the country. Check them out.

The 3rd annual SHOWDOWN will bring seven nationally renowned HBCU marching percussion ensembles to St. Louis to battle it out for $10,000 for their school’s percussion programs. The 2012 ensembles include Central State(Ohio), Harris-Stowe State, Howard, Kentucky State, Langston, Lincoln and North Carolina A & T Universities. The competition will be hosted at Chaifetz Arena on Saturday, April 21. The [...]

The nation’s marching band fans have spoken, and have chosen the top eight marching bands at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the 2012 Honda Battle of the Bands. Now marking 10 years of celebrating the heritage, showmanship and scholarship of HBCU bands, the Honda Battle of the Bands will bring “The Homecoming” to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for [...]

Marching 100 to Host Annual Band Camp and Parade TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida A&M University (FAMU) Marching “100” will host its 2011 Band Camp from Saturday, July 9 through Saturday, July 16. The “100” will lend its talent to hundreds of the nation’s best high school band students. A myriad of students from throughout the United States will arrive [...]

Maybe not officially on paper, but based on the crowd's response to SCSU and the standing ovation they received from the entire dome after their performance, if a winner was chosen, they would clearly be!

Honda Battle of the Bands included the Albany State University’s “Marching Rams Show Band,” Tennessee State University’s “Aristocrat of Bands,” Virginia State University’s “Trojan Explosion Marching Band,” Clark Atlanta University’s “Mighty Marching Panthers,” Jackson State University’s “The Sonic Boom of the South,” Winston-Salem State University’s “Red Sea of Sound,” South Carolina State University’s “Marching 101,” and Bethune Cookman University’s “Marching [...]