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NAMM NeXT 2024, held July 16-17 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, was nota typical Summer NAMM Show in Nashville. It was a completely different approach to gathering NAMM manufacturers, retailers, [...]

Music educator, former band director, and former 'band kid' Ryan Van Bibber teaches music technology at the Fort Hayes Career Center in Columbus City Schools in Columbus, Ohio, and also [...]

It has been a little over a year since Sweetwater launched their band and orchestra (B&O) initiative. When the news hit, I thought, 'Wow! Game-changer. If Sweetwater can do for [...]

The cost for entry into band is a daunting challenge for many students, and it sends those with parents willing to support their interest off in myriad directions to get [...]

All National Music, in conjunction with the RWS Music Company, held the 'PreFormance' National Clinics Virtual Preparation Festivals and National Music Festival March 2 - April 24, 2021, featuring high [...]

In our July 2021 issue, we profiled Doug Brasell, founder of All National Music, and the Robert W. Smith Music Festival, first announced at Midwest Band Clinic in December 2019. [...]

It has been 118years since 1903, when the commandant of the military science department at University of Kentucky, Captain George, made his appointment of Professor Rucker as band director, creating [...]

Everyone wants to get back to the classroom to play together. Unfortunately, we are not quite there yet, but hopefully heading that direction with vaccines coming out. However, distance learning [...]

In December, we surveyed previous recipients of the '50 Directors Who Make A Difference' honor from the past three years on their experience teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. We decided [...]

By Mike Lawson with Victoria Wasylak For over two decades, the December issue of SBO magazine has honored a band director from each state in our annual '50 Directors Who [...]

Walter Bitner, previously the director of education and community engagement for the Nashville Symphony from 2014 to 2019, left Nashville last summer, moving to Virginia for the same position at [...]

SBO catches up with Kimberly Kraft McLemore, vice president of education and community engagement for the Nashville Symphony, to catch up on their Accelerando program, learn how it fared during [...]

School Band and Orchestra Magazine's '50 Directors Who Make a Difference' report was compiled again having painstakingly reviewed hundreds of nominations. Directors were nominated by students [both former and current], [...]

If you've ever been to the Texas MEA show, or Midwest Band Clinic, or other of the bigger state MEA tradeshow floors, odds are good you've seen, from across the [...]

In celebrating Black History Month in 2021, we had the opportunity to shine a light on the first-of-its-kind museum, Nashville's new National Museum of African American Music, which had a [...]

The past couple of issues I have printed stories about companies rushing to fill a need that sprung forth last spring - the opportunity for musicians to perform or rehearse [...]

For over two decades. New York City-based Realtime Music Solutions (RMS) has been delivering solutions for rehearsing music to the musical theater market. Through software products, RMS has helped countless [...]

Now over two decades old, School Band and Orchestra Magazine's '50 Directors Who Make a Difference' report continues to shine a light on outstanding music educators from each of these [...]

Getting a large group of students to any destination of any distance for any kind of event is a challenge. In SBO, we frequently cover the world of student travel, [...]

The Country Music Association (CMA), established the 501(c) (3) CMA Foundation with a commitment to improving and sustaining music education programs across the United States, 'working to ensure every child [...]

While certainly not the first company to ever enter the B&O market via catalog or online sales, Sweetwater is certainly the biggest player to turn their attention toward it. One [...]

I've been frequenting local music stores since I was around 10 years old and learned how to navigate the city bus system in my hometown. Armed with $2.00 in my [...]

Full disclosure: I worked (for only) about three years at Gibson, in the 1990s, and left there (the first time) on good terms. I got to do cool things, work [...]

For two decades, School Band and Orchestra Magazine's '50 Directors Who Make a Difference' has focused the spotlight on outstanding music educators from each of these United States. Honored directors [...]

For 30 years, Liberty DeVitto was the studio and touring drummer for Billy Joel. Some might say he was responsible for making Joel sound like a rock act instead of [...]

The 2017 school year is over, summer band programs are beginning, and planning for 2018 is well underway. To help with your festival and travel plans, SBO presents over a [...]

Universal Orlando Youth Programs has expanded the music/film offerings for its 'STARS Performance Program workshop, Sound Design: Music and the Art of Foley,' which they developed a few years ago [...]

Lee Koonce is the president and artistic director for the Gateways Music Festival and senior adviser to the dean of the Eastman School of Music. He grew up in the [...]

The article focuses on the House of Guitars, known as the "Largest Guitar Store in the World," which was established in 1964 by brothers Bruce and Armand Schaubroeck in Rochester, New York. Topics include the store's origins in their mother's basement, its strategic expansion to a historic building in Irondequoit, and its evolution into a landmark destination with an extensive selection of new, used, and vintage instruments, offering music lessons and a unique retail experience.

I've always been peripherally aware of barbershop as a vocal music art form. However, my own participation in choral groups was either a cappella or more often, accompanied on piano. [...]

Few people in the history of music education can say their work has directly impacted the lives of countless music students from all over the world. For 27 years, Tim [...]

Ten choral directors from around the country share their thoughts and experiences from 2016 and what's ahead for 2017. Tristan Tolle Central Middle School Muscatine, Iowa I teach 6th-8th grade [...]

SBO's 19th annual '50 Directors Who Make a Difference' once again showcases great music educators, each of whom were submitted from all 50 states. Current and former students, colleagues, peers, [...]

Ft. Collins, Colorado isn't exactly the easiest-to-reach destination. First, it's almost always a flight through Denver International Airport, which is super busy, full of late running arrivals and departures, and [...]

Barton Hills Choir performs with Roger Waters, at SXSW and Austin City Limits festivals, collaborates with professional musicians, releases CDs and has an awesome YouTube channel. Is this the Coolest [...]

There's no doubt that band travel is a big recruitment tool for band directors. Cedar Fair Entertainment Company owns and operates 11 parks throughout North America. They also feature eight [...]

Music technology teacher Marjorie LoPresti has taught at East Brunswick High School in East Brunswick, New Jersey for over twenty-five years. Over the years, LoPresti has become a nationally recognized [...]

Music City USA didn't always have a formal music program for K-6 students. Choral, band, those programs didn't begin until the middle school and high school years, and students in [...]

The third-annual recipient of the Music Educator Award, presented by the Grammy Foundation and The Recording Academy, went to Phillip Riggs, of North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in [...]

As the father of a daughter with autism, who got back her ability to speak because of music during her early intervention twenty years ago, who went on to perform [...]

Grammy Camp--Jazz Session 2016 was held February 6-16, bringing together 30 of the most talented players and singers for a once-in-a-lifetime experience that found them performing at multiple venues with [...]