The Summerglen Files

Marching season is officially over: we’ve worked 5 competitions, pushed through 3-1/2 months of rehearsals, and given silly awards and hot pizza to everyone in the percussion and brass lines. After growing accustomed to the hustle and bustle of marching season, it can be straight up weird to see a relatively empty November calendar! [...]

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Welcome back to our “Watch the Marching Band Grow” series here on the Summerglen blog. This video was shot at Millbrook’s second competition of the 2009 season–the West Johnston Invitational this past Saturday, October 10th.

At their last competition, the band had some problems with tempo. The reason is simply because playing [...]

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For today’s Sunday Shots, we bring you a treat from the band camp we did with the Millbrook Band back in July. The Millbrook students put up with a lot from us during band camp. We marched them rain or shine for 8-9 hours a day, made them memorize tons of music, and [...]

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For those marching band enthusiasts living in the Triangle area, here’s the competition schedule for the Millbrook marching band. If you drop by a competition, make sure to give Andrew and me a yell. We’ll be the ones nervously biting our nails on the sidelines during the show.
Oct. 10 at West Johnston [...]

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This year, Andrew and I have been working with the Millbrook High School Marching Band on their Moulin Rouge show–Andrew’s the percussion instructor, and I’m in charge of the brass line. It’s been a fun and challenging experience, and now we get to see the results of all the students’ efforts over the last [...]

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