208th Army Band

We were honored to perform for the Field of Heroes event in Greenville, NC this past weekend!

Thank you to the Greenville Rotary Club for hosting us at this special event. Visit the link for more pictures of this beautiful day!

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The 208th "Weapons of Brass Destruction" out there making a difference in the community! We love to see it! 🎶🎵🎼

The 208th Army Band played to a packed house at Rourk Branch Library last week! From patriotic anthems and jazz singles to famous movie soundtracks that everyone could bop along to, the crowd most loved playing their new kazoos with “The Instruments of Brass Destruction” band! Thanks to Brunswick Arts Council for the kazoos!

Come see us! 🎉🎆🧨🎶🎵🎙🪕🎼

🎆 4th of July Celebration 🎶
Join us tomorrow, from 7–9 PM, for an evening of patriotic fun featuring live music by the 208th Army Band!

Enjoy local vendors, food, and family-friendly fun as we come together to celebrate Independence Day.

Bring your lawn chairs, your friends, and your festive spirit—we can't wait to see you there!

Thank you to the Denton Public Library for hosting our Woodwind Quintet yesterday! It's always such a pleasure serving in the community.

What's going on at YOUR library?

We're all over the Carolinas this summer! Come see us during our Annual Tour!

Ever seen THREE upright bass players in one concert band?
It’s rare. It’s bold. It’s happening TONIGHT!

This Memorial Day, we salute with strings—and a whole lot of bass for a powerful tribute performance.

Finch Auditorium – Thomasville, NC
7 PM sharp. Don’t miss it.

Honor, harmony, and heavy basslines? You’ll want a front-row seat.



📸: Stephen A Saunders

If you've not seen SGT Mulligan in action, your only option for tomorrow evening is to come see the show. Don't miss it! We are thrilled to have this newly graduated MASTER'S DEGREE, (soon to be doctoral student) in conducting, leading us in Ives's Variations on America.

We appreciate so much about her, from her rehearsal technique to her quick wit and respect for each person in the ensemble. We are so lucky to have SGT Mulligan in our ranks! Did we mention she's also a fantastic clarinet player and marathon runner?

Come to our Memorial Day Concert at Finch Auditorium in Thomasville, NC tomorrow night at 7pm.

This past weekend was a Battle Assembly for the books! We had the pleasure of promoting three Non Commissioned Officers in our ranks.

SFC Dana Emery came to us from the Air Force Bands. She is a French Horn player, a squad leader, a dedicated member of the honor guard and one of the most loveable people you'll meet. She cares immensely about her Soldiers and has a strong work ethic. She is a mother of 2 children who she is incredibly proud of and serves as a music teacher in her civilian life. We are so glad to see that the Army sees what we see in her and look forward to see where this added responsibility will take her!

SSG Scott Mills is an incredibly talented trumpet player, drum major and now works as our Supply NCOIC! In his past life, he was a Marine musician with many cool stories as a bugler in Washinton D.C. He is a proud husband and father of 2 boys and you may recognize him in the Charlotte, NC in his time working as the musical director for the renaissance festival in the fall. We are incredibly lucky to have this talent in our band and we look forward to where his work in supply will take us!

SSG Matthew Davis is a trombone player, dedicated member of the honor guard and a PT stud! He is a Soldier who takes great pride in taking initiative and working hard to make things better in the unit. He is often seen working behind the scenes with no need for "credit", making sure projects have been followed through, the building is clean before we leave for the weekend and in general filling the holes in anything we may have forgotten about. He is a proud husband and father and an award winning tattoo artist! In fact, you can admire his handywork on many of the members of our band!

Please help us in congratulating these hard working NCOs on their most recent accomplishment! 👏🎉🎊🎉

Being an Army Reserve unit means that we generally have 2 scheduled battle assembly days per month and 2 weeks in the summer. This band manages to provide an incredible amount of community and military support every year...generally nearing 150 various missions per year. We take volunteers from within our ranks to support military funerals, parades, concerts, military ceremonies, and the list goes on...needless to say, we are often going in a million directions on Battle Assembly weekends.

After about a 12 hour work day to prepare and perform our concert last night, we came in this morning to prepare for some very important administrative and supply work that will happen in the coming months...and then we took time to reflect on our year and work on our team building.

We discovered that we have some incredible talent, athleticism, and general eye for fashion! Congratulations to our "Best Dressed" winner SSG Alan Page (posing in the horizontal position of the group picture 😅), our holiday-scene drawing winner SGT Evans-Rivera, our "Most likely to not need night vision goggles" Stocking stuffer winner SPC Lorenzo and our "most likely to absolutely crush 1000 cups to win a musical cups game against a pregnant finalist" winner SGT Huddlestun.

It was a fantastic way end to the year together. ❤️