The band also performs during halftime, with a wider variety of music ranging from Broadway show tunes to top-40 hits.

The CMB was also featured in the 2009 film ”Marching Band” a documentary directed by French filmmaker Claude Miller.

In further recruitment efforts, Pease went on to offer spots in the band to musicians at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

[4] In their inaugural season, for their October 7 game against Clemson, the band performed with The Temptations Review starring Dennis Edwards.

In 2012, the Cavalier Marching Band performed with The Temptations in front of a sold-out home crowd against Penn State.

Interest in the Cavalier Drumline was initiated when a representative of the Yamaha Corporation paid a visit to a spring rehearsal.

The representative noticed and commented on the drumline's professional attitude and was compelled to have them added to the national advertisement campaign.

During the 2017 season, the band welcomed notable singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood to perform with the CMB in an arrangement of his 1984 hit single, "God Bless the USA", as part of the university's annual Military Appreciation Day.

[7] The band suffered from poor funding and outright disasters through the subsequent years, including a loss of its instruments and uniforms to a bus fire in 1941.

[8] After a brief resurgence in the late 1950s, including allocation of $12,000 for uniforms, instruments, and facilities by a faculty committee under University President Colgate Darden, the band had dwindled to 25 members by the early 1960s.