Staff reports  | The Citadel Regimental Band and Pipes will represent the United States next year as the country’s designated military band at the at The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland.  

The overseas honor will be the band’s fourth time performing in what is considered the world’s most famous military music festival.  Over the three-week event, millions of people will watch the band, which is the only U.S. military college band to have been invited to perform on behalf of the United States, according to a press release.    

“It would be an honour to welcome the Citadel cadets back to the Tattoo,” Brigadier David Alfrey, chief executive and producer of the Tattoo wrote in his invitation.  “The band performed with us to huge plaudits and it would be wonderful to present their talents to the Tattoo audience once more.”