According to band members, there’s no partying, debauchery or infantile shenanigans: Band Camp is all business.
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According to band members, there’s no partying, debauchery or infantile shenanigans: Band Camp is all business.
UMass Band director George N. Parks discusses teaching high school musicians the leaderships skills essential to being a drum major with WBUR’s Only A Game.
The teachers here are UMass alumni & students who can speak about the program. The program allows them to practice their teaching skills. Hannum said they “teach a work ethic and have fun while doing it.”
UMass drumline alumni Damon Grant ’01 on percussion and Glenn Robertson ’05 team up with American Idol finalist and The Bomb Squad.
The number of UMass alumni teaching drum corps has now reached more than 34, with 19 different corps! In DCI alone, nine out of the current top 12 finalists have been represented by UMass alumni.
Under the direction of UMass Amherst’s own George N. Parks, a Rose Parade band shows how good it is.
Libby Jones will join 400 musicians from across the country in the Bands of America honors band. She is one six MA band members selected for the honor.
George Parks, founder of the George N. Parks Drum Major Academy in Amherst, Mass., insists that his whistles include peas in their air chambers.
This year and every year, if not to their classy selves, the marching Minutemen are the best band in the land.