Following practice, the band heads to the Edmund P. Joyce Center to perform for the pep rally, energizing students and fans alike.

Once arriving at the Loftus Indoor Sports Facility,[4] the band practices their field show once more and thereafter convenes for lunch, often performing various songs for special banquets held in the South Dining Hall at this time.

Next, approximately half-an-hour before kick-off, the band steps off from in front of the Main Building for their traditional march to the stadium, led by the Cheerleaders and Irish Guard, the band parades down the streets, lined by fans clapping and cheering the Irish onwards to victory.

After performing for pre-game festivities, its halftime show, and the post-game show, the band makes a triumphant march back to the band building after the game, and awaits preparations for the upcoming game day and the next opportunity to support its Fighting Irish football team.

[citation needed] With nearly 400 members each year, the band features nine main sections: trombones, drumline, piccolos, clarinets, saxophones, faltos (mellophones, or f-alto horns), baritones, basses, and trumpets.

He has also served as director of the Opening Ceremonies of the U.S. Olympic Festival and conductor of the All-American College Band at Disney World.

Ken Dye serves as a music director of numerous special events as well as a clinician and adjudicator throughout North America and the South Pacific.

[9] In its first decades, the band mostly primarily at awards ceremonies, theater productions, commencement exercises and to honor students going off to war.

[3] The Band of the Fighting Irish has a long tradition of providing music and pageantry for the Notre Dame football games.

[12] The Band of the Fighting Irish began accepting students from Saint Mary's College in 1970, two years before the University of Notre Dame became coeducational.

[13] The Notre Dame Band's early purpose was apparently to lift the spirits of students and provide entertainment on special occasions.

It played at the university's "Main Circle" as students left to join the armies both North and South during the American Civil War.

[14] The band has played around the country and around the world for countless concerts, masses, graduations, civic functions, bowl games, parades, athletic contests and many, many national championships.

[16] In May 2010, the Notre Dame Concert Band performed in Carnegie Hall in New York City; Regis Philbin conducted the Victory March.

Past sites have included New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Croatia, and most recently South Africa in 2018.

The Notre Dame Victory March was first played on campus in the rotunda of the Administration Building during the 1909 Easter celebration concert.

The Notre Dame Band Alumni participant graduation years ranged from 1952 to 2017, and included 8 drum majors, 70 percussion, 200 woodwinds, and 190 brass.