The Auburn University Bands is proud to announce the names of the accepted students for our First Annual Symphonic Honor Band for junior High and middle School students.  The list of names, by instrument, can be found on the Junior High Symphonic Honor Band page.

We are happy to inform you that, due to multiple requests from many of you, we are extending the deadline to become a part of the first-ever Auburn University Symphonic Honor Band for Junior High students.  The new postmark deadline to send nomination forms is Tuesday, November 10th. We hope you’ll take advantage of this unique opportunity to become a part of Auburn Band history!  Please visit the Junior High Symphonic Honor Band for more details.

The Auburn University Bands is proud to announce that we are accepting recommendations for our 19th Annual Symphonic Honor Band for High School students and our first ever Symphonic Honor Band for Junior High students.  The festivals will take place on February 11-13, 2010 for the high school festival and February 4-6, 2010 for the junior high festival.  For full details on these festival and to download a recommendation form for your deserving students, please visit the Symphonic Honor Band for High School Students or Symphonic Honor Band for Junior High Students webpage.

The Auburn University Bands is proud to announce its first ever Symphonic Honor Band for Junior High students.  The festival will take place on February 4-6, 2010 here on the Auburn University campus.  For full details on the festival and to download a recommendation form, please visit the Symphonic Honor Band for Junior High Students webpage.

For those who would like to order a DVD of last weekend’s Marching Honor Band 2009 & Cheer America performances, you can download an order form here. The deadline for orders has been extended to Monday, October 12.  Please have your order postmarked on or before that date.  Thank you for participating in the year’s honor band festival!

The Auburn Tigers weathered the storm last weekend to boost their record to 3-0.  Our favorite football team will now take on the Ball State Cardinals this Saturday.  The Auburn University Marching Band will host its Marching Honor Band that same day, providing a special halftime show that showcases the talent of hundreds of top high school marching band students alongside the AUMB.  Marching Honor Band participants can learn more about Gameday details by visiting the Marching Honor Band webpage.  Gameday details for our other fans follows after the break. (more…)

For those of you who were selected to participate in the 2009 Auburn University Marching Honor Band on Saturday, September 26th, we’ve just posted registration packets to download and print.  In order to participate in the festival, we need to receive the included release form, along with the registration fee, by Tuesday, September 22nd.  For full details, please visit the Marching Honor Band page.

The Auburn University Bands would like to thank everyone who applied for our 2009 Marching Honor Band.  Selecting only a few of you was a difficult process as always, and we hope to encourage everyone who was not accepted this year to apply again next year.  For a list of our accepted students, and instructions on registering for the festival, please visit the Marching Honor Band page.  WAR EAGLE!

All band directors who have students applying to join the 2009 Auburn University Marching Honor Band Festival must submit their recommendations by Tuesday via the online form sent through email on Friday.  If there are any issues, please email us at band@auburn.edu to resolve the problem.  Thank you for supporting your students and our festival!

Due to an unfortunate technical difficulty with the online application server, some of you experienced issues in submitting an application last night.  In order to ensure that everyone has a chance to apply to our honor band festival, we are pushing back previously announced deadlines for Marching Honor Band applications.  The application deadline has now passed.  Directors will soon be contacted for their recommendations. (more…)