Somewhere, Bill Chase is smiling with George Parks. More than three decades after his death, the music of the legendary trumpeter continues to echo through football stadiums and competition fields across America. Every fall weekend,…
Sisters Iris and Sheila Heady, of South Hadley, Mass. chose to give up everything typically associated with summer to make music.
2010 marks Jason DeGroff’s ’93, ’95 M.M. first season as director of the University of New Haven Marching Band, a brand new program that just completed its first season of marching in the fall.
The Minuteman Marching Band has been named one of the greatest college bands in the country by Bleacher Report, a sports news, commentary and opinion website.
Jimmy Verdone ’09, is interviewed in High School Today about high school traditions, where at Northbridge High, his students sing the Beefaroni theme song.
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers filmed their hit ‘Shady Esperanto and the Young Hearts’ music video at UMass Amherst, featuring the UMass Marching Band.
UMass’ Thom Hannum, Jim Ancona, and Nick Angelis will join fellow BLAST! alumnus Jim Mason.
UMass Band alumna Amanda Roeder is featured on the cover of the Sept. 2009 issue of Choral Director Magazine.