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Discover Prompt 20: Music

Just the mention of fall in Knoxville brings to mind football with the Vols and the music of the Pride of the Southland Band. We can hear that music now — strains of the unofficial fight song, “Rocky Top,” being played as the band marches through campus into Neyland Stadium . . . or as […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ooh, Shiny — UT’s Pride of the Southland Band

Count me lucky. Day 4 of UT’s Band Camp found many alums (including me!) watching as the Pride of the Southland Band practiced its newly- polished maneuvers. Alums stood on the sidelines of a practice field near the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center duly impressed with what a group, together only for four days, could […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?

Well, of course we’re glad it’s photo challenge time. Especially with this theme. As they say around Knoxville, we bleed orange around here. And not just any ol’ orange. This is gen-u-wine University of Tennessee orange. Go Vols! For more entries in this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange, click here.

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A Word a Week Challenge: Lines

Sue’s A Word a Week Challenge this week from her blog A Word in Your Ear is LINES. And since we’re big University of Tennessee Vols fans,we watch intently as the Pride of the Southland Band lines up, marches into the stadium, and performs the circle drills that bring down the house. Before the game, […]