For four days this week, Grace was fortunate to be able to attend the George N Parks Drum Major Academy at West Chester University. This is a nationally renowned drum major and band leadership course that just happens to be 15 minutes from home. Our band parents association sends our drum majors to this camp every year, and fortunately this year they were able to conduct the camp in person. Last year's drum majors weren't so lucky...
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| Grace (far right), drum majors, percussion student, and our Director |
There were kids from schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Virginia, California and many other states.
These were long days, starting at 8:30am and running until 8:30pm or later.
Grace met kids from a bunch of different places and made friends with drum majors from several different states, including her squad of 6 people, which won a conducting competition in her grouping of a dozen squads.
I'm very much looking forward to this marching band season...
