The University of Nebraska at Kearney Pride of the Plains Marching Band kicked off to an amazing start of a season at last weeks Loper’s football game against Pittsburg State.
Students tirelessly put in the hours to get ready for an amazing start of a season. Pre-season band camp began August 10th and for the next nine days 20 pages of drill, pre-game and half-time music, show music, color line routines, and drumline cadences were grounded into the band.
“We send out the music to the students over the summer so they can get a head start on it. But our first rehearsal where everybody is all together that started basically on about August 12th and we had about a little over just a week to kind of get the music polished, memorized and then start setting that to movement on the football field…So its basically putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle and we’re just slowly putting the pieces together of those 9 days” said Assistant Director of Bands Brian Albers.
The band will be preforming two shows based on music from “The Phantom of the Opera” and “How to Train your Dragon.”
Pride of the Plains 2022 Performance Schedule
Sept. 8, 7 p.m. – Loper Football vs Pittsburg State (Foster Field)
Sept. 17, 10 a.m. – UNK Band Day Parade (Downtown Kearney)
Sept. 17, 1 p.m. – Exhibition, Bearcat Marching Festival (Kearney High School)
Sept. 24, 1 p.m. – UNK Band Alumni Day and Loper Football vs Central Missouri (Foster Field)
Oct. 1, 8:15 a.m. – Harvest of Harmony Parade (Grand Island)
Oct. 1, 7 p.m. – Loper Football vs. Fort Hays State (Foster Field)
Oct. 15, 1 p.m. – Loper Football vs. Emporia State (Foster Field)
Oct. 22, TBD – Exhibition, Nebraska State Bandmasters Association contest (Kearney High School)
Oct. 29, 10 a.m. – UNK Homecoming Parade (Downtown Kearney)
Oct. 29, 2 p.m. – Loper Football vs Northwest Missouri State (Foster Field)
Nov. 5, 12 p.m. – Loper Football vs Central Oklahoma (Foster Field)
Listen below to hear the full interview we had with Assistant Director of Bands Brian Albers.