| Big Red Marching Band | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA |
| Conference | Sun Belt Conference |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Director |
Dr. Jeff Bright Dr. Gary Schallert, Director of Bands |
| Members | 196 |
| Uniform | The coat is designed with a red towel design over most of the chest. The Towel is set on a black background and is accented with silver trim. The top of the coat is a white stripe that extends from the top of the left shoulder and ends in a point near the elbow of the right sleeve. The right shoulder has the red towel with WKU on it. The WKU emblem is also on the left breast of the coat. The coat is accented around the neck with a red collar with black trim. The pants, shoes and plume are solid black. The shako is red, white and black with silver accents. The top of the shako is black. The side is roughly half red and half white vertically with the split going diagonally across the front with a black strip separating the two. It has a black bill with silver trim and a silver chain where the bill meets the shako. A defining characteristic of the BRMB shako is the mirror WKU emblem on the front. |
The Big Red Marching Band (also known as The Pride of the Hilltoppers) is the name of the marching band organized by Western Kentucky University. The band was formed in 1925 at what was then Western Kentucky Teachers College. Around 1939 the band became a regular feature at every home game of the WKTC football team and raised its participation above 100 members for the first time. The music department began to expand and establish a chamber wind and symphonic concert band program over the next few decades and by 1993 the band had achieved a total of 170 members.[1] Today, the band program at WKU boasts several athletic and concert bands and entertains audiences in sports venues and concert halls on the WKU campus, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the nation. The B.R.M.B. is now over 200 members.
The Big Red Marching Band (BRMB) performs at all home football games, some away games, local campus and community functions and is a regular exhibition band for high school marching band competitions throughout the region. The BRMB is the most visible ensemble in the WKU Department of Music. The B.R.M.B. has performed on the national level by entertaining at several National Football League games, most notably for the Indianapolis Colts and the Tennessee Titans.[2]
|
|||||