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Roar Marching Band

The ROAR is the newest HBCU (Historically Black College and University) in the country located in the epicenter of musical excellence, sunny Miami Florida, most commonly called South Florida. While the band premiered in 2020, the foundation is built on our dynamic staff comprised of the country's most talented and experienced educators, musicians, and performers. The ROAR is led by legendary educator and musician Richard Beckford who brings more than 30 years of experience of building stellar band programs and successful leaders - many which have gone on to be world changers. The ROAR is positioned to be a very valuable and innovative addition to the band world and college experience helping to bring a new, fresh flavor to the culture. We want to empower students to graduate, go out into the world as leaders, and have an unforgettable college experience they will treasure for life!

The marching band culture here on the HBCU campus is extremely important.

It provides the opportunity to establish a sense of pride on campus.

It is the source of energy at the football games and at community and campus events, and it brings the entire campus community and supporters together.

The band culture also helps our students to establish themselves in confidence and in excellence, good, work ethic, time management, all these qualities that are essential to go out and be successful in the world when they leave.

And we went through great lengths to attract some of the finest talent on our staff for our dance program, our flag program, our percussion so we have skilled educators and instructors in every area, but the feedback has been amazing.

To date, we've attracted over 2 million views on Facebook, so I believe we're doing pretty well.

We're always working to develop the individual musicianship of our students, but one of the things we were able to establish is a scholarship that allows all of our students to receive some kind of funding towards their education.

We have three tiers of scholarship ranges from the basic scholarship that allows everyone to participate all the way up to tier three scholarships for our elite musicians.

You can see the audition information on the roar marching band.com, the materials, all the music is there, the requirements are there, the scholarship opportunities are there? Be a part of history.

Join the roar and own your excellence.

That's what we want for you here at Florida Memorial University.

 

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