Alumni News and Events

• Calling all Tiger Marching Band Alumni! Dust off those instruments and flags and come perform with us during pregame at the UHS Homecoming pregame on Friday, September 19, 2025! Find more info and RSVP by September 15 here.  

• Thank you to all of the alumni, students, current and past band directors, honored guests, families, community members, volunteers and sponsors who made the Urbana Bands 100th Anniversary Celebration a night to remember! We are grateful to We Love Urbana and Sarah Scully Photography respectively for this wonderful collection of photos and video. View the collections here and here.  

• Watch a full recording of Urbana High School Bands 100th Anniversary Concert on April 20, 2024 here.  Thank you to Robin Kravets and Rob Kooper for capturing the concert on video. 

• Thank you to Carlton Bruett Design for this fascinating history mural recently installed outside the UHS Band Room to commemorate our 100th Anniversary. If you haven't seen it yet, stop by the band room and check it out, or take a look here. PC: C. Bruett, K. Fay, R. Kravets, Rosemary Yearbook

•  View "A Century of Urbana Bands," a photo retrospective of Urbana Bands at this link. We are grateful to Jen Showerman for curating the photo exhibit and to the following photographers for for their contributions to the exhibit: Karen DeBauche, Dick Cogdal Family, Kanittha Fay, Karl Hendrickson, Robin Kravets, Debra Larson, Peter Mortensen, Daniel J. Perrino Family and Rosemary Yearbook Staff.

• More than 100+ UHS Bands Alumni from across nine states and nine decades joined us in celebration for the historic 100th Anniversary Alumni Band Concert. Former UHS Band students ranging from the Class of 1935 (age 107) to the Class of 1923 (age 19) lined up to launch the concert with a nostalgic processional. A proud day for Urbana and a memory for the ages! View a glimpse of the line-up for the processional here. 

• What an incredible reunion with more than 100 alumni from across the nation. So thankful to have these moments with you at the UHS Bands Alumni Social at Riggs on Friday, April 19, 2024. Such a great way to launch the reunion weekend and get the band back together! For more candids from the social, check out the Instagram link here.

• Hats off to all of you! We reached more than 100 RSVPS for our 100th! Find the list of who joined us for the Alumni Band Reunion and Concert here. 

• Introducing the Urbana Bands 100th Anniversary T-shirt! All proceeds after expenses will go towards the UHS Bands 100th Anniversary Fund.  Email us here for more info or to purchase a shirt. Click here to see the t-shirt design.