Highty-Tighties

Highty Tighties
SchoolVirginia Tech
LocationBlacksburg, Virginia
ConferenceACC
Founded1893
DirectorSenior Chief Jim Bean USN (Ret.)
Members150
Websitevtcc.vt.edu/band.html
This article is about the regimental marching band at Virginia Tech. For the school's nonmilitary marching band, see The Marching Virginians.

The Virginia Tech Regimental Band, also known as the Highty Tighties, VPI Cadet Band, or Band Company was established in 1893 as a military marching band unit in the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Virginia Tech also has had since 1974 a non-military marching band, The Marching Virginians.[1]

  1. ^ Information about the Virginia Tech Regimental Band that is paraphrased here is found in the historical collection of Virginia Tech yearbooks, The Bugle, on-line, 1895-1989