The Liberty University Marching Band is an exciting company of brass, woodwind and percussion instrumentalists, accented and accompanied by a full colorguard. In true drum corps style, The Spirit of the Mountain maintains the highest level of excellence, discipline, and musicianship. Sporting uniforms of red, white, and blue, the Band is a favorite at home football games, as guests at football games in other stadiums, and as featured performers in community events. The Spirit of the Mountain has appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, at the New York Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands for 80,000 spectators, and at colleges and universities throughout the Eastern United States. Click on any of the links to the left to learn more about The Spirit of the Mountain Marching Band.
Game Day!
(posted May 14, 2012)
Attention 2012 Members:
We are excited about the upcoming fall semester, and having you a part of the GREATEST SEASON EVER! The LU Marching Band is gearing up for a fantastic show, entitled “Just The Way You Are” that we unveiled a little more than a week ago.
We are advertising our need for additional tuba and mallet players for this fall. At this date, we have a great compliment of instruments across the ensemble, with the exception of these two sections. For example, at this time the trumpet section numbers 30 members, and the clarinet section 30 members, too! If you would like to perform in the tuba section, we have brand new Yamaha silver tubas, the same bell-front instruments used by many of the top DCI corps!
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Please let us know right away if you would like to switch from clarinet or trumpet, to the tuba section (yes, we have female tuba players, too!). Even better, if you have a friend that plays tuba that has not yet joined with us, please let me know!
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If you have a friend that would like to play marimba or vibes in the Front Ensemble, please let us know right away, too. Piano players make great mallet players! We have very fine Musser mallet instruments for these players.
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Liberty University Bands Semi Tractor Trailer
Fall 2012 Show
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Our 2012 show, Just The Way You Are, is sure to be a crowd favorite. Tunes include Cannon in D, Cry Me a River (in the style of Michael Buble'), L.O.V.E. as performed by Nat King Cole, Sheherazade, Grenade by Bruno Mars, Just The Way You Are: versions by Bruno Mars and Billy Joel. The show ends with a HUGE Canon in D recap! This is going to be a GREAT one! |
Fall 2011 Show
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Our 2011 show Behind the Mask was a high energy show packed with tunes from your favorite masked heroes and villains! The show opened with a drum break, setting the stage for the Who's "Who are you?" as the band takes the field. Stay around and you were greeted by the spanish taste of the theme from Zorro, the Powerful anthem of the Phantom of the Opera, A "swinging" rendition of the Spiderman theme, the infamous imperial march of Darth Vader, and last but not least, the haunting and glorious finale of Batman himself, ending on a reprise of "Who are you" that closed out the show with a bang! Check out the trailer for this years show! |
Fall 2010 Show
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The Liberty University Marching Bands fall 2010 show was entitled "iShuffle - Stuck on Replay" and featured many different tunes that would be found on a typical college student's ipod. The tunes were divided into three groups, songs the students love, songs the parents love, and songs the band members love. The show included segments of "Replay" from Iyaz, "Umbrella" from Rhianna, "My Immortal" from Evanescence, "Superstition" from Stevie Wonder, "Lean on Me" from Bill Withers, "American Pie" from Don Mclean, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, and the Hallelujah Chorus from Handels Messiah.
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Fall 2009 Show
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The Liberty University Spirit of the Mountain's 2009 show, "Red Hot and Blues" brought to the field a classic mix of Jazz and Swing tunes that you can't help but tap your feet to! The band rocked the house with marching renditions of popular hits, such as "Caravan" the jazz standard from Duke Ellington, "Feeling Good" the hit single from Michael Buble, "Sing, Sing, Sing" from Benny Goodman, "Prelude, Fugue & Riffs" by Leonard Bernstein, and "La Suerte de los Tontos" |
Fall 2008 Show
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The Liberty University Marching Band's Fall 2008 show was entitled "Director's Cut, Music from the Movies" The band stormed the field with the soundtracks and themes from college student favorites such as James Bond and Batman. |
New Band Room at Liberty University
The new band room includes state of the art acoustic treatments, lighting, audio, high definition displays, lockers, locker room, uniform storage and more!
