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DeMoulin Suits Up with Algy
DeMoulin Brothers and Company acquired assets of the Algy Trimmings Company in March 2021. The acquisition brings the octogenarian color ... -
Illinois and Ohio State Perform in Spring Football Games
Band members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and The Ohio State University (OSU) took to the stands and ... -
New Directors March In
The University of Kentucky (UK), Western Carolina University (WCU), and the University of Southern California (USC) are among major colleges ... -
HBCU Band Alumni Share Their Stories in Bestselling Book
The importance of marching band culture in the overall experience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) is now chronicled ... -
Arts Are Education Campaign Offers Lobbying and Advocacy Tools
In response to the impact of COVID-19 on the arts, national organizations are pushing for advocacy with the national “Arts ... -
Chris Holland from the Boston Crusaders Named DCI Board Chair
When Chris Holland joined the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps in 1986 as a member, he probably didn’t imagine ... -
Safe Celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day 2021
Parades aren’t easy to pull off in a pandemic, but for St. Patrick’s Day 2021, several cities found creative ways ... -
Krewe of House Floats Creates COVID-Safe Mardi Gras
Some traditions are too strong for even COVID-19 to suppress. In New Orleans, that was Mardi Gras. This year, the ... -
USBands and BD Performing Arts Join Forces
BD Performing Arts (BDPA) in Concord, California, and USBands in Allentown, Pennsylvania, have combined to create a nationwide pageantry arts ... -
Collegiate FANtastic Winners
With COVID-19 distancing marching members and putting crowds on the other side of a screen, competitions like the Collegiate FANtastic ... -
DCI and DCA 2021 Season
Drum Corps International (DCI) and Drum Corps Associates (DCA) are marching again though in a different direction. Both organizations had ... -
HBCU Homecoming Programs
For so many colleges and universities this year, “homecoming” became “stay at home.” Going into 2021, performers in Historically Black ... -
WGI Virtual Season
In September, WGI Sport of the Arts canceled in-person events for the 2021 season, but the organization is still providing ... -
Bluecoats School of the Arts
The Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps turned a season of canceled programming into a new online educational program called Bluecoats ... -
SoundSport Scholastic
Aiming to serve and celebrate a broader field of performing arts groups, Drum Corps International (DCI) and Varsity Performing Arts ... -
Michigan Marching Band on Minecraft
What started as a Minecraft hangout between trumpet players in the University of Michigan Marching Band (MMB) turned into a ... -
Eden Prairie High School Wins KHS America Academic Alliance Sweepstakes
The Eden Prairie (Minnesota) High School Band is receiving five snares, three tenors, and five bass drums—sized, configured and finished ... -
Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive Launches 2020 New Music Project
Don’t be surprised to find a brass quintet in a parking garage. 2020 changed how music is being performed; 2020 ... -
Virtual Band Consortium Allows Consistent Learning
With students in flux between in-person classes, online classes, or a hybrid of the two on any given day due ... -
PASIC 2020 Goes Virtual
The Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), an annual destination for many music educators and musicians, will be a virtual ... -
First All-Female Drum Major Duo at Central Michigan University
With no prior musical experience, Jordan Healey joined band for the first time as a high school junior. Now as ... -
Blind Band Performed at 2020 Outback Bowl
The Ohio State School for the Blind Marching Panthers Band, known as “The Best Blind Band in the Land,” added ... -
Restarting the Marching Arts?!
While dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations have been working hard to get the marching arts restarted. In June, ... -
“Arts Education Is Essential”
Halftime Magazine joins the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and nearly 100 organizations to state that “Arts Education Is ... -
9 Beats and Roland Partner for Education
9 Beats USA, a new company based on the music education method by 9 Beats in China, has recently partnered ... -
Hawkeye Family Goes Viral
The Gibson family of Iowa City, Iowa, is making the best of the uncertain situation surrounding the coronavirus by making ... -
Virtual Marching 110
Online classes and social distancing didn’t stop the Ohio University Marching 110 from making music together. The video “Virtual Marching ... -
Human Jukebox Feels “Good as Hell”
GRAMMY-award-winning singer Lizzo, who often speaks positively of her past marching band experience as a flutist, has taken that band ... -
2020 Drum Corps International Rules Congress Approved New Electronic Effects and Color Guard Judging Criteria
Those hoping to see flutes, clarinets, and saxophones join their brass and percussion counterparts in drum corps will need to ... -
University of Miami Marching Band Participates in Super Bowl 2020 Festivities
More than 70 students from the University of Miami Frost Band of the Hour were already missing classes at the ...
