Playing America's Music
In 1990 the Albany Marine Band became one of only twelve bands throughout the Marine Corps. Stationed at the Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Georgia, this band of fifty Marines travels throughout the United States and internationally to fulfill its mission of serving as musical ambassadors, providing music for military ceremonies, community celebrations, recruiting programs, and official events. Although this band is primarily a ceremonial ensemble, the band also performs as a marching band, wind ensemble, brass and woodwind quintet, jazz combo, show band, and party band.
In 2003, the band traveled more than thirty thousand miles to perform in excess of two hundred twenty commitments. During this time, the Albany Marine Band performed for more than six hundred twenty thousand people worldwide. The major highlight of 2002 was being featured in the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland. Over two hundred fifty thousand people attended this international event and the televised audience exceeded 100 million viewers in over sixty nations. The band also performed at the New York Stock Exchange the past two years, and played numerous concerts in various states across the country. Performances of past years include Keflavik, Iceland and Times Square in 2001. In August of 2000, the Albany Marine Band became the first non-Canadian band to perform the changing of the guard at the Citadel in Quebec City, Quebec.
With the Marine Corps tradition of ‘every Marine a rifleman,’ all Marines in the band are fully trained to fulfill their secondary mission of bearing arms in the defense of our nation. In addition to their musical and military roles, each Marine has supplementary administrative responsibilities within the band to support the band’s high operational tempo.
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