{"id":266689,"date":"2026-08-17T04:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266689\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T04:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T04:12:20","slug":"wpxi-launching-band-together-initiative-for-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266689\/","title":{"rendered":"WPXI launching \u2018Band Together\u2019 initiative for back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 WPXI Channel 11 will celebrate the music, pride and tradition of Western Pennsylvania\u2019s marching bands with a new initiative, \u201cWPXI\u2019s Band Together,\u201d as part of our Back To School 2026 coverage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Each weekday during the weeks of Aug. 17 and Aug. 24, a local high school marching band will play us out of the 6 a.m. newscast to help brighten everyone\u2019s morning. The full performance of each marching band will then live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\">WPXI News App<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/\">WPXI.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Channel 11 News will feature marching bands from across the region as communities band together to navigate the return to school and the return to routine for the Fall. Marching bands currently participating include Allderdice, Bethel Park, Butler, Canon-McMillan, Moon, North Allegheny, North Hills, Norwin, Pine-Richland, Shaler, West Allegheny and Woodland Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Please see the schedule below and join us on Channel 11 Morning News each morning as we celebrate the excitement of the back-to-school season through the talented marching bands that will create the soundtrack for Fall.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, Aug. 17: Pine-Richland High School Marching BandTuesday, Aug.18: North Allegheny Tiger Marching BandWednesday, Aug. 19: Moon Area Marching BandThursday, Aug. 20: Canon-McMillan Big Mac BandFriday, Aug. 21: Shaler Area Titan Marching BandMonday, Aug. 24: Pittsburgh Allderdice High School Marching BandTuesday, Aug. 25: North Hills High School Marching BandWednesday, Aug. 26: Norwin Marching BandThursday, Aug. 27: Butler Area School District Marching BandFriday, Aug. 28: Woodland Hills Marching BandMonday, Aug. 31: West Allegheny Marching PrideTuesday, Sept. 1: Bethel Park Black Hawk Marching Band<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 WPXI Channel 11 will celebrate the music, pride and tradition of Western Pennsylvania\u2019s marching bands with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[112503,112505,73,75,74,112502,112504,112501],"class_list":["post-266689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-back-to-school-2026","tag-high-school-marching-bands","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-western-pennsylvania-marching-bands","tag-wpxi-channel-11","tag-wpxis-band-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}