Famous Maroon Band

Famous Maroon Band
School	Mississippi State University
Location	Starkville, Mississippi
Conference	SEC
Founded	1902
Director	Elva Kaye Lance
Assistant Directors	Clifton Taylor and Craig Aarhus
Members	418 (2024)
Fight song	"Hail State"

The Famous Maroon Band is the name of the marching band at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. The Famous Maroon Band plays at all Mississippi State home football games and sends at least a pep band to a majority of the football away games (except for ones that are too far to travel to, such as when Mississippi State played at Arizona in 2022). Typically, the full band also travels to bowl games, the Egg Bowl against the University of Mississippi, and at least one other away game per season.^[1] The band was formally established in 1902 at what was then called Mississippi A&M College and was a military band, as was the college at the time.