When the Marching Illini report to preseason camp in August, the UI band won't be provided with sheets of music for upcoming shows. Instead, band members will be using eFlip, a device that ...

In the three years Colton Williams has been playing bass drum in the Emory & Henry College marching band, he has seen reams of sheet music and performance notes tossed at the end of each season. But ...

URBANA — Under orange and blue lights, Joe Rank lays out some of his collection of Illini sheet music on the pool table. Many are a century old or more, dating back to the glory days of Red ...

Ben Coleman knows his job could have been awkward. Coleman, then a college senior, was charged with teaching a rock star how to read music. As part of Tommy Lee's made-for-TV trip to the ...

Last week, sophomore Music Education students in Percussion Methods experienced firsthand what it's like to march in a drumline. Professor Chris Tanner, instructor for the course, recruited two ...

It wasn't publicized until Thursday when athletic department representatives asked members of the student group Illini Pride to stop playing the song on a drum at a soccer game.

Most drummers play their music with their feet on the ground, but Liam Light performs his solos upside down. His band ...

More than 100 middle school band students from the northwest suburbs joined the Marching Illini and St. Viator High School in Arlington Heights to celebrate music education. “We wanted to est… ...

The school's band, the Marching Illini, had played the cadence at football games. Illinois made the decision in an effort to be more inclusive and because students haven't responded to it as much ...

DRUMLine Live tour inspired by HBCU marching band traditions stops in Wilmington The show includes original compositions, soul-infused interpretations of top 40 hits, and synchronized group ...

As a high school student, Amanda Thomas declared to Twitter that she would become the Hawkeye Marching Band’s first-ever female drum major. Although that history was made before she came to the ...

Paris High School's marching band will perform with one of the country's top collegiate marching bands when the University of Illinois helps kick off the Tigers' football season on Paris' ...