The Golden Band from Tigerland won ESPN’s Battle of the Bands “Quest for the Crystal Ball” competition and the $25,000 prize, said Rob Dowie, Tiger Band Drum Major.Dowie said he and the 100 band members in Gainesville, Fla., for the Tigers 7:00 game tonight watched the announcement live on ESPN’s College GameDay program this morning.”We’re absolutely going to be playing ‘Indiana Jones’ in the stadium,” said Dowie, business management senior. “We don’t know how that will go over, but we’re excited. We’re going to play what we played in the video tonight at Florida.”Dowie said the Tiger Band has won the only two national competitions it has entered, including today’s and in 1970 when it was named “All-American Marching Band.”ESPN teamed with Paramount Pictures to promote the release of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” on DVD, Roy King, assistant director of bands, told The Daily Reveille in September.”Our intent is to use the money for our new band building, so this would definitely be beneficial,” he said then.Voters could submit one ballot a day for their favorite performance of the Indiana Jones theme song, each with a different arrangement, Dowie said in September. Each of the seven participating bands has a video on ESPN’s Web site to showcase their performance of the theme song.Dowie said word of the win quickly spread among Tiger Band members through phone calls and text messages, a surge of excitement he was able to notice and predicts will lead to an energized performance in The Swamp tonight.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Tiger Band wins ESPN’s Battle of the Bands
October 10, 2008