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LSU TIGER MARCHING BANDNo LSU football game would be the same without the LSU Tiger Marching band! The crowd needs them. The players need them. Even Mike needs to hear the LSU Tiger marching band! Do you know how many students perform in the LSU Tiger Marching Band? Do you know how much they get paid, or how many hours they put into practicing? Let's talk about the LSU Tiger Marching Band!
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The Golden Band From Tigerland
One of my favorite parts of being at the LSU football games is to watch and listen to the LSU Tiger Marching Band. They are also known as the Golden Band From Tigerland, and they are incredible! When you hear all of those instruments blasting Fight For LSU or Hey Fighting Tigers, who could not love the Golden Band From Tigerland? The LSU Tiger Stadium fills up with their sounds. The entire crowd sings along with them. It's awesome!
Here are some neat facts that I found about the LSU Tiger Marching Band (the Golden Band From Tigerland):
- The LSU Tiger Marching Band is made up of 325 students! That's a lot of horns and drums!!
- In 2002, the Golden Band From Tigerland was voted number one in the country!
- Over 80% of the Tiger band members are not music majors.
- The band practices four times per week, for 1.5 hours each time!
- The only "pay" that a member of the Golden Band From Tigerland gets is a scholarship for $640 in the Fall semester.
- The Tiger band Colorguard and the Golden Girls are part of the LSU Tiger Marching Band.
- The band's origins at LSU date back to 1893.
- In 1904 the band performed at the St. Louis World Exposition.
- The early bands at LSU were actually military/ cadet bands.
- The Golden Band From Tigerland's first half-time show was in 1924!
- The LSU band performed in the 1988 movie Everybody's All American.