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Syracuse, N.Y. -- The 2023 marching band competitive season is set to roll out this weekend. East Syracuse Minoa and Jordan-Elbridge are Section III sites that are holding New York State Field ...
Jay Matheney, director of the marching band at Ballard, said Deondrick had no basic training and was "pretty rough around the edges," but was enthusiastic and inquisitive when he joined the band.
As a high school student, Amanda Thomas declared to Twitter that she would become the Hawkeye Marching Band’s first-ever female drum major. Although that history was made before she came to the ...
"For the first time in Marching ‘100' history, the top three student leadership positions-Head Drum Major, Band President, and Assistant to the Band Director-are all held by women," Bostic said.
In 1921, Paul ‘Spotts’ Emrick decided that the “All-American” Marching Band needed something to set them apart from other bands. Emrick’s idea called for a bass drum larger than any other. The idea ...
TBDBITL has officially announced new drum major leaders for the 2016-2017 season. The Ohio State University Marching Band held its annual drum major tryouts at the Harmon Family Football Park on ...
“The drum major audition was certainly very challenging, but it was also incredibly rewarding,” Frankl said. The role involves leading nearly 300 marching band members as well as being its primary ...
A band kid since middle school, Jewell said helping to lead MSU's 300-member marching band as one of two drum majors, along with fellow student Tom McGovern, is a lesson in self-confidence.
Sophomore India Anderson (pictured in November 2018) was elected the Marching Band’s first female drum major Tuesday. (Ling Luo/Daily Trojan) The Trojan Marching Band elected sophomore India Anderson ...