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Argonotes is the official band of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. We're a roughly 50 member all-volunteer pep band that plays before, during and after the Argo games, and we'd love to have you join us.

Our 13th season is done. We finished it off with a fun filled weekend trip to Montreal for the Grey Cup. For the second year the Argos have provided us with a stage in the south end zone and set up microphones so that we can be heard throughout the stadium when we play. We no longer wandered like nomads lost in the desert. We welcomed a number of new musicians to the band this year but we can always use more. Why not consider joining us in our great musical adventure next season?

Our 13th season was a great year for the band. We capped off the season with a hectic but fun Grey Cup weekend, the only thing that would have made the season better was an appearance by the Argonauts at the Grey Cup. After the season a number of our members wandered over to the Ricoh Centre to help out the Marlies band, "Margonotes".

One of the highlights of our 12th season was playing O Canada for only the second time in our history. I mean on the field at the beginning of the game of course, we've played O Canada a few others times in different circumstances. We also held two wildly successful Argonotes tailgate party with one more planned to end the season which was converted to a hot chocolate tailgate when the weather didn't cooperate. Others have been doing it for years but cool people like us always arrive fashionably late. We had so much fun we'll probably do it again next year. Of course they are about to turn the tailgate party parking lot into a condo but such is life. We made our annual pilgrimmage to Hamilton for the Labour Day Classic, introduced a number of new pieces to our repertoire and made a few edge of field visits.

2005 was another banner year for the Argonotes. The fans came out in almost record numbers to cheer us on and to watch exciting CFL football. We issued our second set of limited edition Argonotes pins to celebrate out 10th year of existence. If you didn't get one before they sold out be sure to purchase one early this year. Watch this space for details. We travelled to Hamilton to support our team and welcomed many new, talented members to the band.

The 2004 seaon culmilated with an unbelievably memorable trip to the Grey Cup in Ottawa, including a special send off from Sook-Yin Lee from the CBC radio show DNTO. That year we also introduced fabulous new hats to our uniform, check them out on our flutes, trumpets, trombones and our beloved Dictator. Previous years have featured a series of record-breaking turnouts, a appearance on TVO, a radio interview broadcast worldwide, and our first overnighter, a terrific ViaRail trip to Montreal for the playoffs. We generally try to make it to at least one out of town game each season. We have made so many trips to Hamilton that we have lost count and completed a succesful overnight return trip to Montreal in November of 2001 for Grey Cup weekend.

Special thanks to the Toronto Argonauts for letting us be a part of their game day!

Argonotes - just Argonotes, not The Argonotes, thank you very much - has been the official band of the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts since away back in June of 1995. We think this makes us one of the oldest continually operating bands in the CFL,.

Our growing group of enthusiastic musicians rehearses once every few weeks (during the June-November CFL season) and performs at all the Argos home games at the Rogers Centre.

"We're not exactly a marching band - we're more of a matching band, given that we all wear the same Argos apparel" says Argonotes musical dictator Steve Hayman. "Anyone interested in harmonically cheering on the Argos is more than welcome to join the band. All we ask for is enthusiasm and at least a limited form of musical ability."

We play a variety of tunes that appeal to the wide range of members of our group. Many of the band members are alumni of the various Waterloo, Queen's, Western, Toronto, Laurier, McGill and Princeton university bands and range from recent graduates to people who last played in the 1950's.
During the regular CFL season from June to November, Argonotes rehearses occasionally, tunes up as frequently as once per season, and performs at all home games, usually with an informal pre-game concert one hour before game time outside Gate 5 on the south side of the Skydome, and a few post-game selections outside Gate 2.

You can look at our 2008 Schedule or check out our expanding Image Gallery for a look at the band in action! You can even find out what we sound like.

Be sure to visit the web pages of our (until recently) CFL friends in the Baltimore Colts Band!