Best video of The Biggest Marching Band in America at the Rose Parade, Allen Eagle Escadrille 2016

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The 774 member Allen Eagle Escadrille, the largest marching band in America, performs weekly at Allen High School football games for 18,000+ fans at Allen Eagle Stadium, but this $1.2 million trip to Pasadena, CA for the Tournament of Roses Parade blew the world away.
With over 100 million people watching on television around the world and more than 1 million people lining the parade route in Pasadena, the Escadrille's appearance at the 2016 Tournament of Roses Parade was named one of the "5 best moments of the 2016 Rose Parade."
Money for the trip was raised with great support of the fantastic residents of Allen through several activities starting with a "recycling" day where unwanted electronics, toys, sporting goods and household items were collected and purchased by a reclamation company.
* a free carwash in 5 Allen locations simultaneously earned $10,000 in donations
*a (new) mattress sale held in the band hall where the national record for most number of mattresses sold was broken (140 in one day) earned $25,000
* $135,000 in corporate donations
Each student had to come up with $1,600 to pay for the trip but after the money that was raised was divided up between the students (about $200 per person) the amount was lowered to $1,400 per student.
The numbers:
8 airplanes to get to California
2 Semi-tractor trailers to transport uniforms and equipment
60 chaperones
15 buses to transport the band around town
The trip began 18 months earlier when the band applied, submitting a 3 minute video featuring all of the kids, letters of recommendations from public officials, etc... In February of 2015 the Rose Parade made their selection and invited 12 bands from around the world to participate in the 2016 parade.
Please enjoy this video that includes the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber conducting a flyover at Rose Bowl at the beginning of the parade. The footage was shot live at the Tournament of Roses Parade by Two Shooters Photography from Allen, TX. Check out their website for more pictures of the Escadrille. www.twoshootersphotos.com

[@atorrance]

Band is so large they could have the people in front playing one song and have the group in back play something completely different!

[@mitzibowers960]

Allen is a great community, and the band students all work extremely hard to be the best at everything they are a part of. The Allen Eagle Escadrille could not have been more deserving of this once in a lifetime experience.

[@emilyburlbaw6654]

indeed, go Tuba's!!!

[@frasergolden2234]

That is an insanely large group of dedicated kids! No doubt they can do a marching show but their sound is awesome! Never seen that manners of a band in my life!!

[@hairyscotman]

Y'all make TEXAS......PROUD!!!

[@sandravillanueva669]

Brings back a lot of great memories of when i was part of the escadrille i was in the allen high school class of 2001

[@davidswanson5669]

I was an alto sax player in that same escadrille- class of 2002 for me.

[@peteferretbear3648]

_wow, im from new zealand, and have never seen anything like this spectacular

[@timarmy1]

Allen is my alumni, class of 85. 400+ strong as a 4A HS. These were the best memories of my life. And to see them now in this Parade? WOW! They are having the time of their lives!! :)

[@johnodonohue2436]

I loved being here! I have my own video!

[@jaywatson8720]

How do you even manage a band that size? That’s the question I wonder. Biggest band I’ve been in was 325 and it was hard to rehearse.

[@texastechredraiderfan]

unigamehead The logistics are amazing. Accommodations are made for everything. To take roll at the beginning of rehearsal, everyone has a bar code and just scans in when the arrive. Travel to away games takes 18 school buses and around 100 volunteers.

[@o.m.r9889]

march grandioso

[@ronflynn383]

Wow! Look at all those kids having fun for a lifetime!

[@txtrekkiegurl871]

Nice and Sunny . Not like the first time Escadrille went Rose parade. I was so cold and wet. I remember the person in front me didn't wear white and tan shorts and she had on bright blue underwear. lol

[@ghettabagzach8858]

Their color guard is like a 5a band its self 😂

[@a.garner3198]

what song is after the yellow rose of texas at 2:08

[@texastechredraiderfan]

March Grandioso. My fave!

[@robertskeen2314]

“Everything is bigger in Texas”

[@jaywatson8720]

How do you even manage a band that size? That’s the question I wonder. Biggest band I’ve been in was 325 and it was hard to rehearse.