Welcome to the 2015 90 Degree Show Celebration Bowl! The bowl game to kick off the bowl season will be the champions of the Southwestern Athletic Conference in Alcorn State University, against the champions of the Mid Eastern Athletic Confernce in North Carolina A&T State University. We will talk about this matchup, what we thought about the game, what we thought about this year overall in bands and who we think will win the Honda. This bowl was a great experience on TV, but can we get the SIAC and the CIAA involved? We brainstorm about how we can add our two other conferences in a bowl game or ask should the teams play each other? This is our last broadcast before the Honda Battle of the Bands in 2016. Tonight we welcome the great Christy Walker and the owner and founder of Block Band Music and Publishing, Rashad Watters. You can email the show at marchingpodcast@gmail.com, tweet us @marchingpodcast or follow our blog at themarchingpodcast.blog
Welcome to the 2016 Honda Battle of the Bands. The Final eight bands that will compete for the title this year are:
Alcorn State
Alabama A&M
Bethune Cookman
Lincoln University
Jackson State
Tennessee State
South Carolina State
Prairie View A&M
We also talk about Voices of the Band or announcers for the halftime show. Is what they are doing helping or hurting the halftime performance? Also we get all the details from the sky phi box experience to entice you for 2017. Herbert Seward calls in to talk about the battle and Manuel Powell our scholarship recepient tells us what it was like to perform at the Super Bowl of Battles. Tonight we welcome the great Christy Walker and the owner and founder of Block Band Music and Publishing, Rashad Watters. You can email the show at marchingpodcast@gmail.com, tweet us @marchingpodcast or follow our blog at themarchingpodcast.blog
Welcome to the 2016 Marching Podcast Awards. Today we give out our best for the 2015-16 College Football Season. We also discuss all of the events that broke the news waves in 2016.
Best 5th Quarter
Best Halftime Show
Best in the Stands
Best Drill
Best Overall Band
We would also like to hear from you to see what you thought was the best of 2015. Tonight we welcome the great Christy Walker the owner and founder of The Fifth Quarter Forum. You can email the show at marchingpodcast@gmail.com, tweet us @marchingpodcast or follow our blog at themarchingpodcast.blog
Introducing Carlton Wright. Carlton is the Director of Bands at Alabama A&M University. Mr. Wright was groomed with a Dream Team of music educators and peers on his way to becoming Head Band Director at a major HBCU program. Tonight we find out where Mr. Wright is from, were he went to school, who he studied under and with and how he became Band Director at Alabama A&M University. You can email the show at marchingpodcast@gmail.com, tweet us @marchingpodcast or follow our blog at themarchingpodcast.blog
Introducing Kyle Gulau and Will Alderman the founders of Fantasy Marching, fantasy sports for marching band. The app is a reality-based competition where you are the corps director of your very own world class drum corps. You host auditions in your league, and then participate in the competition season across the country. As real corps do all the work, your fantasy corps acquires points based on actual on field results. Tonight we meet Kyle and Will and find out where they are from, their marching experience and how they started Fantasy Marching. We also use a couple of HBCU bands to help translate the scoring. You can email the show marchingpodcast@gmail.com, or tweet us @marchingpodcast
The scholars for 2016 are:
Diamond Frazier - Central High School in Memphis, TN
Andy Moreira - Centennial High School in Compton, CA