Marine Band San Diego
Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Logo
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego, California

Marine Band San Diego
Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Logo
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego, California

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San Diego Music Hall of Fame

U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 2 Randel Metzinger with Marine Band San Diego, Service Company, Headquarters and Service Battalion, is...

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Members of Marine Band San Diego, perform a half-time show

U.S. Marines with Headquarters Company, Headquarters and Service Battalion, and members of Marine Band San Diego, perform a half-time show for San...

 

The primary mission of Marine Band San Diego is to support the Recruit Training Regiment and other depot organizations. Additionally, the band performs a wide variety of music at military ceremonies and civilian events throughout San Diego County and the southwestern United States.

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Band
1400 Russell Avenue
San Diego, CA 92140-5594

Commercial: (619) 524-1754
DSN: 524-1754

mcrdsd_band@usmc.mil

For nearly a century, Marine Band San Diego has thrilled countless thousands throughout the country with its inspiring renditions of patriotic music, classical literature, Big Band and Top 40 favorites, and of course, the marches of John Philip Sousa.
 
The primary mission of Marine Band San Diego is to provide musical support for military and civic ceremonies. In addition, the fifty Marines of the band perform in several different ensembles: concert band, marching band, brass quintet, woodwind quintet, jazz combo, rock band, and brass band.
 
In order to encourage music education and showcase the vibrant history and tradition of military music, the band is active in providing clinics and concerts for high school and college students throughout the western United States; serving as musical role models for developing musicians.
 
Among the band’s most popular performances are the Tournament of Roses Parade, the Holiday Bowl Parade, and annual summer and winter concerts. The band also appears regularly at various professional sporting events such as San Diego Padres and Arizona Cardinals home games. Recent appearances include performances at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Lincoln Center in New York City, The Hollywood Christmas Parade, and the Tournament of Roses Parade. For the past 3 years, Marine Band San Diego has been selected to perform during Marine Week in Phoenix, Arizona, Nashville, Tennessee, and Detroit, Michigan. Altogether, the band performs more than 350 appearances each year. 

Marine Band San Diego Leaders

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Band
Officer in Charge

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Randel S. Metzinger was born in Tacoma, Washington and moved to

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Marine Corps Recruit Depot Band
Bandmaster

Master Sergeant Robison enlisted in the Marine Corps and reported to Marine Corps Recruit Depot

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Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Band
Drum Major

Gunnery Sergeant Hallquist arrived at Marine Band San Diego in August of 2021 to assume the duties

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