Historically Black Colleges & Universities Marching Bands Virtual Performances At 2021 Biden-Harris Presidential Inauguration (video & comments)

MEETMEONTHE50, January 19, 2021

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Visit: https://bideninaugural.org

for Full Coverage of the 2021 Inauguration 1/20/21 Band Order: Louisiana Leadership Institute (LLI) (Instagram: @llimarchingband ) Grambling State Univ. World Famed Marching Band Florida A&M Univ. Marching 100 South Carolina State Univ. Marching 101 Tennessee State Univ. Aristocrat of Bands Southern University Human Jukebox Jackson State Univ. Sonic Boom of the South

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases virtual performances of several historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) marching bands and one high school marching band. These performances were part of the Biden-Harris inauguration program. Because of Covid-19, most of that inauguration program was virtual.

Selected comments from the discussion thread for this YouTube video are also included in this post. 

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those marching bands who participated in this virtual performance. Congratulations to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
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*According to several commenters in this video's discussion threads, the marching bands were given 3 or 4 days notice requesting their participation in this virtual inaugural mash up video. 

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SELECTED COMMENTS
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTNfwZhYlc&ab_channel=MEETMEONTHE50 

All of these comments are from January 20, 2021.

Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

As is the case for many of the selected comments compilations on pancocojams, I'm interested in documenting what the commenters said but also how they said it, particularly commenter's use of  African American Vernacular English (AAVE). However, the AAVE words and phrases are given without highlighting them and are given without any definitions. 

1. Jeanya Owens
"To my 💚🧡💚🧡💚🧡 🐍and all of the schools that Participated in this historic moment. Job well done! ♥"

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2. Laurie LBR
"Love y'all and special s/o to those babies at the beginning because they did that but we all know JSU KILLED THAT!"

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3. O T
"High school band SOLID💥"

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4. itsvenise S
"They really were. I thought they were alumni. Wow high schoolers you can tell they practice their instruments very well."

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5. Just A Thought
"High school dancers from McKinley High and Leadership is alumni/ current students all star"

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6. UPT123
"LLI did a great job, especially considering that band is majority high school students. And of course I enjoyed Southern and FAMU. Great day for all HBCU's in totality."

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7. THGWYCTB
"SOUTHERN AND Lousiana Leadership Institute - SO POLISHED! All of the bands were good and I am proud to be an HBCU graduate bu SOUTHERN IS SO CLASSY AND LLI is also. 6th-12th graders. Amazing!"

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8. TheMelloMan
"Glad to see the Boom brought some energy to the scene. Everybody sound good"

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9. Jaylin Jones
"Mane this virtual stuff just take too much away.. non the less still happy to see these bands. Missed them all through 2020"

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10. jbu2009
"Saved the best for last. JSU ..the BOOM"

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11. Saundra Washington
"TSU the aristocrat of marching band"

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12. frankieswarthy
"Louisiana stand up LLI and The Human Jukebox"

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13. YesMa’am KieriJae
"Right Louisiana bands AINT playing! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️"

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14. Nathaniel Hall
"sonic boom gave me that extra pep to match an inauguration celebration and su put it down per usual. UH.. grambling? we need a serious discussion. matter of fact media team... wat happened? lol👀😬 distorted audio?"

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15. Drequynn Rod
"A!ot of bands were not live so umm gsu still sounded great how someone out do someone gsu sounded great but like most bands along with scsu and others were pre recorded"

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16. Nathaniel Hall
"@Drequynn Rod gsu probably wasnt prepared for this all-around event on short notice. u can really tell vs everybody else. its not just actually performing, but its the media production and song selections required. that's why I didn't like how the new Biden and Harris team waited to the 11th hour to add all these hbcu bands. Dr. little wit jsu said they got like a 3-4 day notice and THEY STILL DID AMAZING WIT THEY PREPARATION. but I just knew someone out the group was gonna get caught lacking"

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17. Drequynn Rod
"They're not the only band  who did that but yeah gsu gets called out some stuff were old from others too. Even some audio wasn't live come on."

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18. itsvenise S
"@Drequynn Rod yep in the voice of roger bros all those bands were studio up."

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19. Drequynn Rod
"Right but they love calling out gsu  yet some of those bands wasn't live

Playing it was a mash up folks can't simply give props to all we worse than the other ppl who dog hbcus"

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20. Shomona Voss
"#LLI 🥵🔥🔥🔥 did y’all catch the uniform change hair flip tho"

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diligent
21. "Famu yall betta dance like you from the MOTHERLAND ♥️♥️♥️....#firstbandtodoadanceroutineathalftime"

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22. Kimberly Danielle Yaya Payton
"I'm loving the interpreter. Sis wants to dance"

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23. Thunda 2K19
"Wow Grambling nothing in that was towards the inauguration 😂😂"

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24. Nathaniel Hall
"lost for words. I guess the short notice of the inauguration invite bit them in the butt more than the other bands cuz man... 😬👀"

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25. Drequynn Rod
"So gram wasn't the only band pre recorded and jam tonight was the perfect song in celebration which was gsu band playing. Y'all act as its bad. They were not the only band who didn't do a live performance btw not gsu  first time doing this"

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26. LilMane318
"@Drequynn Rod yah I understand everybody didnt have a live performance but still they could have gave us more than a slide show with some damn back ground music to it smh im Grambling all the way but they let me down with that kindergarten stuff"

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27. Nathaniel Hall
"@LilMane318 not the pre-recording. basically all bands did it to give high quality sound which is perfect, but if u gonna use old halftime shows.. ya media team better use better audio quality"

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28. LilMane318
"@Nathaniel Hall i agree but the slide show is what got me everybody else did some type of small performance and they just gave us some pictures smh I love Grambling but damn cuzz come on mane"

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29. Nathaniel Hall
"@LilMane318 😂lol"

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30. Darlene McNealy
"Bands shouldn’t need dancing girls. 🤷🏽‍♀️"

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31. Marque Griggs
"Well don’t watch"

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32. KelNoKeenanDoe
"It’s tradition"

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33. Malik Moore
"Tbh famu had the best 1"

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34. Marion Simmons
"ima have to disagree Su, Lli, & Jsu had the best"

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35. Darryl Bannister
"S.O.S  with FAMU you should be tired Of this"

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36. Chris Lucas
"@Darryl Bannister that’s like telling JSU to give up get ready. It’s a traditional song that’s never going away."

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37. Nathaniel Hall
"@Marion Simmons Su and Lli was great, but JSU just gave me a pep to my step. u can tell the directors really worked fast and smart to come up wit creative selections and productions to match the inauguration theme. wat went unnoticed was the marching down the strip on campus. it just matched the presidential messaging of moving forward and progress"

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38. Dripward
"Tbh ion even care who had the best, I’m just glad to see all of the hbcu bands"

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39. itsvenise S
"@Malik Moore totally agree they kept their sound and style. Also, LI represented the SWAC  very well they were most true to the SWAC sound even though they are high schoolers."
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Athletic_Conference
"The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is a collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, which is made up of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Southern United States."

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40. Jeremi Anderson
"Proud TSU Aristocrat Fall 95. I see you drum majors with the Black Lives Matter gear!"

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41. L M
"All great, JSU was definitely the best, but LLI as a whole was better than all the other hbcus.. thats the tea 😶"

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42. christopher gilliam
"Jsu as always showed up and above all showed out"

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43. WillieG813
"FAMU ALL DAY EVERY DAY"

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44. Darren Robinson II
"My Southern Human Jukebox. Nobody does it better. The proof is in the pudding; just another day in the office for us. No need to do anything more than we have already been doing. No singing and dancing for us here. Lol just a little HBCU humor. Everybody knows we’re the best. But I love the display of the HBCU bands... since there was no football season 😭😭😭😭"

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