Allen High School Eagle Escadrille - 2016 Pasadena Rose Parade

From Allen, Texas
The Allen Eagle Escadrille performing their musical selection at the at the 127th Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade on Friday, January 1st 2016.
This is the largest marching band in America, with 12 directors and their last Rose Parade appearance was in 2006.

[@lilychen5896]

I feel like their woodwind section can make a 6A band themselves 😂

[@yaliaaaa.]

Fr lmfao

[@speedyneutrino1729]

WOW...what a HUGE band !

[@wafallell]

If I'm not mistaken, they're the biggest band in America.

[@MiJoOc76]

Kudos to the directors, administrators, students, families, & community of Allen, TX for their support of their immense music program! Hope to see y'all back in California soon 😄

[@matthewjreynolds1048]

You know what they say: everything is bigger in Texas!

[@kimberlycampbell1100]

Wow I haven't watched this video in like 4 years. Glad to find it again! Love hearing those altos with me being a sax guy, butt those flutes at the end were amazing. They stole the show for me😍

[@jasondelaney6849]

A friend of mine was a director for that band for a year or two.

[@kydevereaux4157]

No place like Texas!

[@cakeismycity8582]

They do say everything is bigger in Texas, I guess that includes their marching bands too

[@xXDuskStarSkyressXx]

That's absolutely amazing!

[@Camilla6558]

Their marching band is almost as big as my entire high school 😭

[@Stewie457]

I have never seen a colorgard the size of a regular band.

[@Tampa0123456789]

MioChan I was thinking about that too.

[@ilovemylayswithbaekhyunfla7847]

Holy fck the whole school is a marching band !!

[@636363toad]

Not hardly..don't know the exact number but four or five thousand attend this high school. It's massive with each floor being different levels of grade. One high school for this community. It works very well for them!!

[@SharonElizabethWhitfield]

Amazing!

[@savvyrfuzz1368]

My high schooll band had 24 people. We was pretty awesome

[@maggiegray5517]

everything’s bigger in texas!!

[@cristobalcampos1513]

Not in El Paso.

[@patrick7819]

Imagine the sitting infront of those trumpets

[@marl-wow]

i'm a trombone in allen, so i march in front of the trumpets. it's very bad.

[@kydevereaux4157]

Massive group!

[@bubbaseilhan9916]

Imagine trying to remember all of their names😂

[@yaliaaaa.]

Nah I would even be able to remember 40 of their names 😭

[@Angry_Garden_Gnome]

Their was one director during my time there that remembered EVERYONES names. I think we had over 800 members at the time

[@MrBuckaroo2014]

Damn!

[@gastonave]

My old high school but when I went there Allen was a little hick town.

[@1951RKP]

Imagine the fund raising it took to fly that group to LA.

[@torreywilliams6154]

They probably had to take 3 separate planes 💀

[@jasondelaney6849]

@@torreywilliams6154 it took two charter flights with 213 of them on board and 7 flights with 55 on board each. They used 15 charter busses to get around.

[@joebeardfw]

did I see almost 30 alto saxes in that band?

[@MeganCourson]

You saw more than 30 alto saxes.

[@frazjuno3708]

joebeardfw right now the band has 861 people i believe. it’s a huge highschool band their stadium is well over 2 million dollars

[@deniscarranza4143]

@@frazjuno3708 Isn’t the stadium worth around $60 million?

[@raymundrivera1656]

So big

[@johnwesleyhuss2327]

What she said

[@Tampa0123456789]

How does this even happen? They need about 3 or 4 new high schools in that area. If anyone noticed...they didn't sound that loud when you consider the size. Better to have a small but dedecaded band instead of a big one with people just holding instruments.

[@kennedynicole3056]

We are dedicated to someone that does go to that school and marches in that band we work our butts off. We start practice in July and in August we March for 10 miles in the hot Texas Sun. We are a one high school town and we are very proud of it. We do not exclude anyone out of the band if you want to join then join. We are dedicated so come down to Texas and watch how dedicated we really are.

[@marl-wow]

Because if you brought the idea to anyone in Allen, they'd shun you. We aren't in it to be the best of the best, man, we're in highschool. We're leaving the competition up to the football team.

[@reesiez1678]

@@kennedynicole3056 every Texas highschool marching band always works our butts off tbh😂

[@person7614]

There going into the forest 😭

[@hitesh5771]

what category do they even fall in for competitions

[@kmills62]

6A which is the largest classification in Texas. The school has about 6300 students.

[@MeganCourson]

+Kenneth Mills Being an Allen Eagle myself I can say that we have more than 6,300 students.

[@Stewie457]

You must have a team of 10 Judges to rate this band. And thats just for marching.

[@jeffgorman8176]

The Band is in class 6A in UIL Competition which is made up of the 251 High Schools in TX with enrollments over 2,195 students. TX Bands compete against schools of the same size, not Band Size. Enrollment at Allen is 6,664 students as of Sep 2017. The people in Allen have never wanted to have more than one High School in the city. They have done well. The School is also the UIL 6A Division 1 State Football Champion.

[@maggiegray5517]

i’m a 6A band in texas as of this year. our band has about 350 people and our school has around 2,500 i’m pretty sure

[@germanstudent06]

Please tell me they at least did Born to Be Wild or Ironman like they used to. That made a band cool and had the college vibe like Ohio State, that Allen routinely ripped off.