{"id":9854,"date":"2024-03-22T09:17:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9854"},"modified":"2024-03-22T09:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T14:17:59","slug":"marching-mizzou-wins-best-overall-band-in-dublin-st-patricks-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/03\/22\/marching-mizzou-wins-best-overall-band-in-dublin-st-patricks-day-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Marching Mizzou wins \u2018Best Overall Band\u2019 in Dublin St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/2024.3.17-Parade-118-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024.3.17-Parade-118-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Marching Mizzou during the 2024 St. Patrick\u2019s Festival Parade.\" class=\"wp-image-9856\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Marching Mizzou during the 2024 St. Patrick\u2019s Festival Parade <em>(Photo credit: Sam Mohler).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_msocom_1\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 300 members of Marching Mizzou just returned from Dublin, Ireland where they won \u201cBest Overall Band\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2024\/miz-ire\/\">2024 St. Patrick\u2019s Festival Parade<\/a>. Marching Mizzou was chosen over 13 other participating bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the two-hour parade, they performed for nearly 500,000 attendees and the many viewers who watched from around the world. Before Dublin, Marching Mizzou traveled to the town of Tipperary, where they marched in the local parade and celebrated our unique connection with the community. Mizzou\u2019s fight song \u201cEvery True Son\u201d is based on the classic tune to \u201cIt\u2019s a Long Way to Tipperary.\u201d There were also opportunities for students to visit historic sites around the country thanks to a collaboration with Mizzou Study Abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/2024.3.17-Parade-19-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024.3.17-Parade-19-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Marching Mizzou Color Guard in Dublin.\" class=\"wp-image-9855\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>(Photo credit: Sam Mohler)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Marching Mizzou on their accomplishment! I also want to recognize Director of Athletic Bands (and new <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2024\/amy-knopps-awarded-2024-kemper-fellowship-for-teaching-excellence\/\">William T. Kemper Fellow for Teaching Excellence<\/a>) Amy M. Knopps, School of Music Director Jared Rawlings and College of Arts and Science Dean Cooper Drury for their support of our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether they\u2019re performing in Memorial Stadium, <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2022\/photo-gallery-marching-mizzou-at-the-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade\/\">New York City<\/a> or internationally \u2013 Marching Mizzou makes us all proud to be Tigers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 300 members of Marching Mizzou just returned from Dublin, Ireland where they won \u201cbest overall band\u201d at the 2024 St. Patrick\u2019s Festival Parade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}