Lost amidst the noise of Wisconsin’s loss to BYU was a truly remarkable tribute to UW Marching Band director Michael Leckrone.
In celebration of Leckrone’s 50th and final season for Wisconsin, the UW Alumni Band came out in force Saturday.
“Ever since last year’s Alumni Band, people have been trying to say, ‘Let’s have a really big one for his 50th year, let’s fill the field,’ and that’s been kind of the slogan for this year,” UW band field assistant Janice Stone (‘89, ‘01) told B5Q.
A big one indeed. Over 500 former and current band members took the field Saturday, the largest-ever showing for the alumni band.