FALL TOUR ABOUT THE BAND

The Villanova University Band and Office of Music Activities provide Villanova students with unique opportunities to perform, travel, and share their musical talents and interests. Villanova Musicians are from every college at Villanova. You’ll form lifelong friendships and develop high standards of performance, bal- anced by a spirit of fun and excitement. Every year we take a week long service trip The band is open to all who have the desire to during fall break to various locations around pursue music as an extracurricular activity at the globe. Past locations have included Cana- Villanova. It provides an opportunity to play for da, South Carolina, Texas, California, Puer- those who enjoy doing so and provides experi- to Rico, and most recentely Miami. The band ences that few other bands can. Every member performs at locations including nursing homes, is involved because they want to be a part of our veterans homes, and elementary schools. We band. We accept all members regardless of mu- try to spread the joy of music to others. Band sical ability. Requirements for membership in BAND members who travel on Fall Tour always love the VU Band are designed to accommodate full the trip, and we feel great seeing how happy our time university students of all majors. We stress music makes our audience. When a group of that our band is not a big time commitment. elementary school children starts singing and dancing to your music, you can’t help but smile! The band rehearses twice per week throughout the school year. TRAVEL If you enjoy playing music and having fun op- Between Fall Tour and basketball, the band has portunities to share that music, then this is the many opportunities to travel throughout the place for you! country. Here are some places we’ve been in the past ten years:

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CONCERT BAND PEP BAND SCRAMBLE BAND

The Concert Band plays a wide range of The Pep Band is the face of the Villanova Band During football season we take the field in our music from all time periods. These include at men’s and women’s basketball games. These unique Scramble Band style. We perform a half- pieces from the Classical and Romantic games are nationally televised, making this time show during all home games, but unlike eras, various marches, and modern wind band the most visible to the outside world. The most college bands, we madly run between our ensemble pieces. Pep Band is student led, and members perform formations in a random fashion called “scram- We play at a number of university func- at games and other basketball-related events bling”. The band plays for tailgating fans before tions such as chair dedications, Candidates throughout the season. the games, and appears at various performances Day, the Naval ROTC commissioning, Spe- Come March, the band has the opportunity to throughout the football season. cial Olympics, and commencement. Addi- travel with the teams to the Big East and NCAA The scramble band is a fun and quirky way to tionally, we perform for service at various tournaments. The high-energy environment of enjoy music without regimented drills. You can events throughout the year. The band per- college hoops makes the Pep Band one of the expect to learn a new show for each game and forms three concerts annually. Villanova Band’s most exciting roles. create some great memories with each scramble along the way.