Banded Stories
Kyle Dupont- Alliance Drum and Bugle Corps
Kyle Dupont, Sophomore at Georgia State University, tells his story of growing up musical.
Paying it Forward, Teaching the Future – Cliff Bialkin
Cliff Bialkin talks of his start in music and how he shares those experiences with the next generation of musicians. The content of this Blog article or Banded Story...
Always Drawn to the Trumpet – Jose Sibaja
Jose Sibaja, from the Boston Brass, speaks on his early beginnings playing the trumpet and how it has shaped the musician he has grown to be. The content of this Blog...
Jazz Player from the Start – Alex Graham
I started playing jazz at Tappan Junior High School in Ann Arbor, MI, and it was something I really enjoyed from the beginning. I had a great teacher named Sandy...
The Music Within–Jessica Bartoshesky
I started playing the piano at age 5 but never really got hooked on it. The perfectionist in me could never live up to the prodigy that was my brother, whose lesson I...
Bringing the Family Together–Laura Spence
I was born in Houston, TX and lived there for the first 13 years of my life. As everyone knows, football is very big in Texas. And marching bands that perform at...
Banded Story–WGI 2014 Orange County Independent
This Bass Drummer shares her emotional story about her journey to be able to march with Orange County and the family she found because of it.
Banded Story–WGI 2014 NorthCoast Academy
They went in the group musicians; they came out brothers. This group epitomizes family.
Banded Story–WGI 2014 Imperial
A percussionist from the Imperial tells how each member makes the others better. Together they are unstoppable.