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BYOS Releases Alphabet Rudiments and Goes on Tour with Hybrid Drumsticks
Bring Your Own Style (BYOS) has created a new method for teaching kids rudiments: the BYOS Alphabet. Ralph Nader and ... -
Three Pac-12 Bands Perform Together in Ireland
Although university bands have long admired the St. Patrick’s Festival and Parade in Dublin, Ireland, the fact that the event ... -
Star of Nevada Performs with Lady Antebellum
While what happens in Vegas, normally stays in Vegas, on April 2 the world got a glimpse into life on ... -
Book Released About Florida A&M Marching 100
In December 2008, Curtis Inabinett Jr.—author of “The Legendary Florida A&M University Marching Band: The History of ‘The Hundred’”—watched the ... -
Cypress Independent Performs in Super Bowl LI
When Lady Gaga and her creative team started planning her halftime performance for Super Bowl LI on Feb. 5 in ... -
Stanford Band Suspension Lifted
This past December, the marching world was thrust into the spotlight with the news that one of the nation’s most ... -
University of South Florida in Rome
When Dr. Matthew McCutchen, director of the University of South Florida Herd of Thunder Marching Band, was approached about taking ... -
College Bands March for St. Jude
When college bands perform at halftime, they have thousands of eyes and ears with them—and this past fall, four bands ... -
Parade Commemorates 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
On Dec. 7, 1941, America was attacked at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. President Roosevelt called it “a date which ... -
2016 Fall Championship Recap
At Bands of America, Carmel (Indiana) HS was named Grand National Champion for its show, “Adagio Presto.” It previously won ... -
National Collegiate Marching Band Championships and Festival
One of the primary jobs of a college marching band is to support its athletics teams. What if instead of ... -
KHS America Donates $60,000 in Instruments for Flood Relief
In a generous display of charity, KHS America collaborated with musician Harry Connick Jr., to surprise the Central High School ... -
Tennessee State Performs at the White House
To celebrate the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian, the Tennessee State ... -
Yamaha Matches Funds for Music Supplies on DonorsChoose.org
Many teachers whose students and school districts lack funds for educational supplies have turned to crowdfunding website DonorsChoose.org to outfit ... -
New Practice Field for Notre Dame
For the first time in its 170-year history, the University of Notre Dame’s Band of the Fighting Irish will finally ... -
Hazing Allegations at Streetsboro (Ohio) HS Band
A new hazing scandal has rocked the Ohio marching world—this time at the high school level. Band director Gretchen Weaver ... -
New PAS Executive Director
Joshua Simonds has been named as the new executive director of the Percussive Arts Society (PAS). Simonds was a drum ... -
Drum Corps Docu-Drama Airing Soon
Full details have emerged on the highly anticipated drum corps television docu-drama “Clash of the Corps.” The eight-part series will ... -
“Blast!” on Disney
The marching stage show “Blast!” is taking fans to a whole new world of music from the Walt Disney Company. ... -
World’s Largest Alumni Band
Billed as “The World’s Largest Alumni Band,” 643 alumni of West Genesee High School in Camillus, New York, gathered for ... -
DCI 2016 Rules Changes
Drum Corps International (DCI) announced several rules changes for this year’s summer tour including altering how percussion is judged, allowing ... -
Military Bands in Danger of Cuts
Military bands have become a target for some members of the House of Representatives looking to cut costs. Representative Martha ... -
New NAfME CEO Focuses on Diversity
The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is focusing on diversity after former CEO Michael Butera’s alleged comments provoked outrage ... -
Largest Monopoly Board
Guinness World Records has confirmed that the Ramona High School Dynasty Band, Color Guard, and Booster Club in Riverside, Calif., ... -
Drum Legend Remo Belli Dies
Remo Belli, founder of Remo Inc. and pioneer of the synthetic drumhead, passed away at the age of 88 due ... -
Vikingland Band Festival Combines with Drum Corps
This summer, the Vikingland Band Festival in Alexandria, Minnesota, adds a drum corps show—the Minnesota Drum Corps Premiere—to its program ... -
Gold and Missouri State in Documentaries
Gold Drum and Bugle Corps from Oceanside, California, and the Missouri State University (MSU) Marching Band have been the recent ... -
Fantasy Marching Arts
Fantasy sports teams and leagues have become an entire industry for football, baseball, and other sports, and now three college ... -
2016 Grammy Music Educator Award
Band director Phillip Riggs received the Grammy Music Educator Award and was honored during Grammy Week and the 58th annual ... -
Bandies YouTube Show
An animated marching band show has hit YouTube! The first episode of Bandies, created by writer Sung Suh, is now ...
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National Alumni Athletic Band Symposium
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