First formed as the Los Angeles #2 band, the band has had several name changes - Los Angeles Citadel band to the Los Angeles Tabernacle band to the Hollywood Tabernacle Band - before it found its current place in 1983 when the Hollywood Tabernacle Corps merged with the Pasadena Corps. While in Hollywood the band marched every Sunday to the famed corner of Hollywood and Vine to hold an open-air service for an eager crowd.

The Tabernacle Band was the first Salvation Army band to play on coast to coast radio in 1932. As one of The Salvation Army's most well known corps bands, the group has been given numerous opportunities to take their message outside of Pasadena. This group was the first Salvation Army band to fly as a unit to an engagement. In June 1946 the band boarded a C-46 propeller driven craft for a flight to Phoenix, Arizona. World War II parachutists had only recently evacuated the jump seats! In 1964 the band toured England, Scotland, Holland, Germany and Denmark, giving memorable performances at the Royal Albert Hall in England, Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, and the Princes gardens in Edinburgh. Three years later the band was chosen by the United States Department of State to perform at the Worlds Fair Expo 1967 in Montreal, Canada. (This was not the band's first World Fair appearance; in 1939 the group appeared in the Fair in San Francisco)

In 1972 the band toured Australia and New Zealand. Since that time the band has traveled to Alaska & Hawaii ('81), Pittsburgh & Chicago ('88), Toronto & Nova Scotia ('94), Vancouver ('97), San Francisco ('98), Chili ('98), Southern USA ('08).Previous bandmasters of the Tabernacle Band include Edwin Taylor, Horace Watson, Harold Gooding, Ray Ogg, Ronald Smart, Barrie Gott, Wilf Mountain, Ivor Bosanko, Bill Gordon, Lambert Bittinger and Jim Anderson. On June 1, 2004 William B. Flinn was commisioned as the Bandmaster of the Pasadena Tabernacle Band.