Welcome, as part of the Golden Panther Band there are many organizations that help make this band succeed and prosper for as long as it has. The band has organizations promoting the spirit of music, band, family, service, and some just to have plain old fun. Check out their websites and all about them below.
Kappa Kappa Psi - ΚΚΨ ΛΓ Chapter
Lambda Gamma Chapter Website
National Headquarters Website
Kappa Kappa Psi operates primarily as a student service and leadership recognition society whose chief aim is to assist the Director of Bands in developing the leadership and enthusiasm that is required of his/her band. Our goals are to provide the band not only with organized and concentrated service activities, but to give our membership valid and wholesome experiences in organization, leadership and social contacts. The honorary nature of membership is based on our premise that “it is an honor to be selected to serve” this band, its department of music, its sponsoring institution, and the cause of band music in the nation's colleges and universities. The Lambda Gamma Chapter of KKY was founded at FIU the first year of the marching band.
Phi Mu Alpha - ΦΜΑ ΡΗ Chapter
National Headquarters Website
Chapter Website
Sinfonia was born on October 6, 1898 at the New England Conservatory in Boston, when a group of thirteen young men under the guidance of Ossian Everett Mills met “to consider the social life of the young men students of that institution” and “to devise ways and means by which it might be improved.” Mills, bursar of the Conservatory, sought to create an Order in which men with a shared love of music could develop the virtues of manhood in themselves and in their fellows.
Sinfonia became a national fraternity on October 6, 1900, with the admission of a group of men at the Broad Street Conservatory in Philadelphia. Since that time Sinfonia has grown into the largest music fraternity in the world, with more than 150,000 initiates, and chapters on over 200 college and university campuses across the nation. After much hard work and dedication of the men of the FL Epsilon Colony, they were installed as the Rho Eta Chapter at Florida International University and have since inducted their first Alpha class. The purpose of Phi Mu Alpha is established as a social men's fraternity with the ideals of promoting brotherhood and apprication of American music.
BPM
BPM handles many aspects of the band...