The organizers of the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl have reversed their decision to exclude the Hawkeye Marching Band from playing at halftime after facing backlash from the band members and the local community. The band will now perform at the game on Jan. 1 in Orlando.

After further review, organizers of the Citrus Bowl are reversing course on their decision about the game's halftime show.

Iowa alumnus George Scully is back at Kinnick Stadium after getting a surprise visit from the Hawkeye Marching Band to mark the end of his treatment.

His mother calls him “a walking musical note,” but these days, Drew Bonner is more of a marching musical note. As one of the graduate teaching assistants working with the University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band, he’s written 148 minutes of marching music since June, “which is a lot,” he said, often arranging hits from pop to heavy metal and Iowa’s own Meredith Willson for halftime shows.

Two years ago, in summer 2021, the NCAA suspended generations-old rules barring student-athletes from monetizing their “name, image and likeness” — ushering in a new era allowing collegiate stars to capitalize on their renown. And yet, the NCAA rule change didn’t functionally change anything for members of collegiate marching and pep bands that travel with their schools’ sports teams to hype and entertain the crowd.

During Saturday's Iowa football game against the visiting Western Michigan Broncos, the Hawkeyes' band paid tribute to Clark during the halftime show.

Saturdays in September may be dedicated to college football, but that didn’t stop Iowa’s marching band from getting a head start on basketball season with a shoutout to the campus’s biggest star: Caitlin Clark.

We are pleased to reveal a new family of graphics for the Hawkeye Marching Band! We worked closely with the Iowa Athletics licensing office to create new Marching Herky logos for the Hawkeye Marching Band, as well as the Iowa Alumni Marching Band.

We are pleased to announce Nick Miller has been named the new Assistant Director of Bands, Associate Director of the Hawkeye Marching Band and Director of Marching Percussion at the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller has served for the last five years as our Drumline Instructor and a graduate teaching assistant for the HMB.