The Marching Salukis perform at all SIU home football games. This year, the band followed the football team to Southeastern Missouri State University for the season opener. The band has also played for the Chicago Bears, the St. Louis Cardinals, the St. Louis Rams, and President Bill Clinton.
Membership is open to all.
Current members' majors include music, aviation, information technology, education, pre-med, engineering, chemistry, and many others. Often prospective members worry about the time commitment involved and how it will affect their grades. The band emphasizes education and members are able to tutor each other in almost any class available at the university because of the diversity of majors. Several band members have exceptional GPAs. The instrumentation is comprised of piccolo, clarinet, alto and tenor saxophone, trumpet, horn, euphonium, trombone, sousaphone, and percussion battery.