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It all started with a pig. It was somewhere around 1895, and a 14-year old farm teen in Jackson Township, Illinois wanted a new cornet.

It is often very tempting in band programs to want to focus on getting trophies.

As many of my students know, I am quite fond of the phrase: “Your muscles don’t know wrong from right. They just remember what they do.”

In September the North Bay Haven Charter Academy Marching Band and its auxiliary units brought home the first-ever regional first place of any Bay County, Florida high school.

From hurricane season in my hometown of Panama City, Florida, to wildfires all across my former home state of California, Q4 of 2018 ended with a lot of destruction and...