EWU is off on break - but they still have a football game on Friday evening and are missing their marching band. Saying the games are just not the same without the EWU marching band, EWU has enlisted faculty, alumni and local high school students to field a 100+ member band this Friday.

• Here's the story and a very nice KREM TV news video clip.
• Afterword: EWU had 140+ volunteer band members at the game, which was televised on ESPN. "For people young and old, music is a universal passion". (video clip at the link)
• Doug Clark joined them - and learned not to sit in front of the trombones
  

And if you have not seen this "viral video" of the University of Hawaii Marching Band half time "kick" from this past week - then take a look: