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The United States Armed Forces Bicentennial Band was a music ensemble composed of members of all branches of the United States military and some musicians selected from music schools across the country. The band toured the United States, Canada, and Mexico to celebrate the
United States Bicentennial The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States of America as an independent republic. It was a central event ...
. The program was sponsored by the
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and headquartered at the army base in
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. Under the direction of Hal J. Gibson, the 67-piece band and an accompanying 24-voice mixed chorus performed a variety of selections representing different genres, generations, and regions. The band premiered at the
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on March 24, 1975. The band was dissolved in late 1976. In addition to touring, the band was recorded for Volume 25 of the
Heritage of the March ''Heritage of the March'' is a series of 185 vinyl records of marches and galops released from 1973 to 1988. It remains the largest single march music record series in history, featuring close to 3,000 different marches. The records were distribut ...
LP series.{{cite book, last=Rehrig, first=William H., title=The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music, url=https://archive.org/details/heritageencyclop0001rehr, url-access=registration, year=1991, publisher=Integrity Press, location=Westerville, Ohio, isbn=0918048087, pages=879


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