{"id":9880,"date":"2026-03-09T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/music.utk.edu\/utbands\/?page_id=9880"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:31:29","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/music.utk.edu\/utbands\/about\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest UT Bands News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"has-dates has-excerpts wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/music.utk.edu\/pride-of-the-southland-names-new-drum-major-and-assistant-drum-major\/' target=\"_blank\">Pride of the Southland names new Drum Major and Assistant Drum Major\u00a0<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-06T12:33:34-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 6, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Written by Alissa Galyon For the first time in\u00a0nearly a\u00a0decade and only the second time in UT Bands history, the Natalie L. Haslam College of Music has named two women to lead its Pride of the Southland Marching Band (POTSB) as Drum Major and Assistant Drum Major.\u00a0 On Friday, March 6, the POTSB announced that\u00a0Sydney [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/music.utk.edu\/ut-bands-prepares-to-host-the-volunteer-concert-clinic\/' target=\"_blank\">UT Bands prepares to host The Volunteer Concert Clinic<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-12T09:44:55-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">February 12, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Written by Alissa Galyon On February 25, the University of Tennessee Natalie L. Haslam College of Music will host the Volunteer Concert Clinic, an educational event designed to spotlight middle and high school ensembles from across the region in a collegiate performance setting. Held in the Student Union Auditorium, the clinic provides participating students with [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/music.utk.edu\/drum-line-member-uses-engineering-resources-to-fix-part\/' target=\"_blank\">Drum Line Member Uses Engineering Resources to Fix Part<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2024-11-21T11:50:48-05:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">November 21, 2024<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Original story written by Rhiannon Potkey, Tickle College of Engineering Anukkah Burleson thought there had to be a better solution to fix the whale tail connector on the carrier of her bass drum. Every year, like clockwork, the part would break.\u00a0 Burleson, a senior mechanical engineering major, is a member of the drumline for the [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":9876,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Latest UT Bands News - The University of Tennessee Bands<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/music.utk.edu\/utbands\/about\/news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Latest UT Bands News - 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