Attention Badger fans of all ages: please welcome the University of Wisconsin Varsity Band!
Under the direction of Doctor Corey Pompey!
Good afternoon everyone.
Good afternoon.
It's so great to see you today.
Thank you so much for coming here to the Kohl Center
to spend a few awesome moments with us.
This is the 49th Varsity Band Spring Concert.
Thank you.
For many of us, this is our favorite event.
So if you don't leave this venue feeling great, we haven't done our jobs.
Sing. Dance. Do whatever you like.
The main thing is we want to make sure that you have a good time.
We're thrilled to perform
the music of arguably the best
singer among today's recording artists.
I'm talking about Ariana Grande.
And so you’ll hear
“Break Free”,
“Yes. And?”, “Dangerous Woman”, “Problem”,
“thank u. next”, and “7 Rings”.
And I'm looking around.
I'm trying to gauge just who's in the audience tonight...
Do you know the music of Ariana Grande?
This is A. Grande Opening.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you thank you.
For his first Varsity Band
concert as the Assistant Director of Bands,
Please welcome to the podium, Doctor Herb
Payung.
Were delighted
to perform the music of Snarky Puppy.
They’re a Grammy Award winning jazz fusion band.
This tune's got a real nice groove to it.
Leading the varsity band in
this will be Doctor Matthew Endres, the Mead Witter
School of Music's drum set professor
and percussion coordinator for the UW Varsity Band.
He's going to come and conduct this piece.
Tio Macaco, please welcome Doctor Matthew Endres.
Daniel Guilette. Daniel Guilette.
Kyle Stephenson.
Doctor Matthew Endres.
You know this one!
Put those hands together!
T. H. E. H.
O. R. S. E.
Let’s go girls!
Man!
You want the fifth quarter?
Here we go.
This is the Fifth Quarter,
gotta get up though!
You gotta dance!
Gotta sing! Gotta do all of the stuff!
This is for you.
There's a word for what we just did.
It's called
practice.
So now we've gotten the hang of it.
We're going to do it again. One. Two.
One, two, ready, and!
Well, you think that might be enough
Chicken Dance for today?
Is that enough?
They said they think it's enough.
Faster?
The chicken says faster.
Only if you personally bring me eggs
every morning to save my pocket.
You got to do that.
Okay.
The chicken says it's going to deliver eggs in the morning.
And so,
I suppose we'll do it faster.
All right here we go!
One. Two. One, two, ready, and!
The things will do for us.
Thank you, thank you.
This next one,
we don't have an administrators here
from the university, do we?
I think I'm good.
This is Tequila! One. Two. One, two, ready, and!
Oh, this next one.
Sing loud and proud.
Two words.
That’s all you need to know. Hey...
and baby.
Here we go.
One. Two. One, two, three...
All right here we go!
Hey! Hey baby!
I wanna know
if you’ll be my girl.
Hey! Hey baby!
I wanna know
if you’ll be my girl.
Hey! Hey baby!
I wanna know
If you’ll be my girl.
One more time.
Hey! Hey baby!
I wanna know
if you’ll be my girl.
This next tune
we borrowed from a commercial.
I believe it was in the 70s.
It's become synonymous
with this university and this band.
Here we go!
When you say Wisconsin,
You’ve said it all!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for joining us
in this Fifth Quarter.
I think that's really unique about this.
This band, we love doing it.
And it warms our heart to see people
enjoying it as well.
Back in the summer,
friends in the athletic department said
“Oregon's coming to town.
We're going to do fireworks.
Will you do a show about fireworks?”
And so that's what we did.
You’ll hear some of everything.
“Blow” by Kesha.
Hope some of you will be in Camp Randall
this summer to hear Coldplay's “Sky Full of Stars”.
You'll also hear AC/DC's “Thunderstruck”.
“Bang Bang” by Jessie J., Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj.
Pitbull's “Fireball”.
And then,
if we're gonna do a show
supposedly about fireworks,
Then, perhaps it would be unconscionable
not to have the last tune in there.
Katy Perry's “Firework”.
This one is called
Light Up the Sky.
One of the things
that we enjoy most, or I should say,
The thing that we do enjoy the most,
and why these students put so much time
in what they do every day
is because of the response from the audience
like yourselves and people that are enjoying what they're doing,
and it is not something that we take for granted.
So thank you.
Thank you so much for being with us again.
So the first concert was in,
1976, March 21st,
actually ‘75, 1975,
in Mills Concert Hall at the School of... of Music.
And I'd like to give a shout out to Dan Evans, who's been,
researching the band and compiling photos.
If you look up at that screen,
you'll see
some photos from those early concerts.
The first concert
had 450 people in attendance,
and it's just grown over the years.
You will also notice that Mike Leckrone
had a nice fashion sense.
Very, very, very early on in in the concerts.
And we're so grateful
to be able to have this event every year.
And we're grateful that the person that created
this event is in the house today,
along with his wonderful family.
So just wish to thank Mike for all he's done.
Thank you Mike!
On the stage
are some fine young people
that are wearing roses.
Those are the members of our senior class for whom
this is their last Varsity band concert.
And I can't begin to impress upon
you just how remarkable
these individuals are and how much they
do to keep the program going.
I'm going to miss them dearly.
My colleagues on this stage,
the other students are going to miss them dearly,
and we hope they come back often.
Please stand.
Members of the senior class.
Thank you, thank you,
Thank you all for everything.
We love you.
We appreciate you very, very much.
We'll close today's program
with our signature Badger Band Finale.
Please help us celebrate the University of Wisconsin
and this great band.
Songs to thee Wisconsin
ever let us sing,
Praise to alma mater
ever let us bring.
Queen of all the West,
college we love best.
Queen of all the West,
college we,
love best.
Varstiy, Varsity,
U Rah Rah Wisconsin,
praise to thee, we sing.
Praise to thee our alma mater,
U, Rah, Rah, Wisconsin.
Sing!
Praise to thee our alma mater,
U, Rah, Rah, Wisconsin, U, Rah, Rah, Wisconsin
U, Rah, Rah, Wisconsin
Thank you so much.
Thank you for being here.
To those of you who are getting ready to celebrate the holiday,
wish you well and have a good time with your families.
This time next year,
number fifty.
Hope to see you then.
And as always, we never say goodbye.
But simply we'll see you real soon,
And On, Wisconsin!
When you say Wisconsin,
you’ve said it all!