BATON ROUGE – The Southern University Marching Band was named the ESPN\u00a0 Band of the Year after a competition in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Two Division I schools, Southern’s Human Jukebox and Florida A&M’s Marching 100 were selected; there were also two Division II bands, Miles College’s Purple Marching Machine and Fayetteville State University’s Marching Bronco Xpress.<\/p>\n
“I enjoyed the whole experience. The Southern University Band will always be a band that takes you on a musical adventure and our students put on a great show tonight,” Head Band Director Dr. Kedric Taylor said.<\/p>\n
The competition was hosted at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE – The Southern University Marching Band was named the ESPN\u00a0 Band of the Year after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,115715,115714,115716,111,139,69,115713,115712,437,115717],"class_list":["post-182352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-hbcubandoftheyear","tag-humanjukebox","tag-localnews","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-southernmarching","tag-southernuniversity","tag-tv","tag-wbrz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}