UAB Marching Blazers Celebrate 30 Years With Retrospective Show for 2024

By Shannon Thomason | UAB News If University of Alabama at Birmingham fans bleed green and gold, then The Marching Blazers band surely keeps the beat of the team’s heart. “At UAB in Birmingham, all hail our players bold. They are the mighty Blazers, who wear the green and gold.” – UAB Fight Song The Marching Blazers, dubbed “The Sound of The Magic City,” are the university’s athletic music ambassadors. Part of the UAB College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Music, the band is the university’s largest performing ensemble and thrills thousands of fans with amazing performances. Each year, students from across UAB’s schools and colleges come together to present a traditional marching band show, appear at sports and special events throughout the year, march in parades, and perform as the exhibition band at high school and college band competitions. Being in a marching band is not for the faint of heart. It takes discipline, dedication, consistency and teamwork, with a huge commitment and sacrifice of time, often with long, tiring days, at the mercy of the weather. Band camp, Aug. 19-23, is more than a week of early morning and late evening practices on the Intramural Field, with...