Wednesday, January 2, 2008

UW Band at the Outback Bowl - Dec. 30

Sunday, December 30
Today our trip got a lot busier!
We started the day with another practice at Clearwater Beach High School.

After practice we went back to our hotel, ate lunch, and prepared for our first performance at the Outback Bowl Beach Day.

The band marched into the stage area through the sand...

and lined up in front of the stage.

We performed a lot of 5th-Quarter favorites, including "Space Badger". During this song, the cheerleaders throw each other high in the air, and I like this photo because you can see one of them "flying" above the band.

From the stage, you can see the crowd, and there were lots of Badger fans at the beach.

You can also see some Tennessee fans wearing orange. The Tennessee Marching Band performed after we were done.

We still had one more performance left today though, and next we went to the Channel Side Pep Rally. We played for about 45 minutes, and this photo shows the band playing "Swingtown", a crowd favorite.

The UW clarinet section plays on white plastic clarinets instead of the standard black ones.

After the Pep Rally, the band took a three-hour dinner cruise on the Yacht Starship, which took us around the Tampa Bay area. It was pretty cool to see the city lights reflected on the water at night.

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