For the past eight years the Music City Drum Corps has been lucky to call Freedom Middle School its winter home, thanks to the efforts of a group of supportive educators. The Franklin, Tenn. campus has been host to weekend camps since 2011, and served as a summer training site in the corps’ early years.[…]

As a former band director and member of the U.S. Air Force band, the new executive director of the Music City Drum Corps has seen first-hand how music can transform lives. So it’s no surprise why Kent Baker was drawn to Nashville’s W.O. Smith Music School. “The W.O. Smith School of Music is one of[…]

Music City Drum Corps’ success depends upon a team of volunteers who fill many key roles, including feeding hungry corps members and staff during weekend camps. First-time volunteer Mark Watkins of Maryville, Ill. talks about his experience helping in the kitchen at the February camp and why you should consider volunteering, too. Watkins’ daughter Chloe[…]

Color Guard Caption Head Tracy Carter returns to Music City in 2018 with an expanded leadership role overseeing design and performance goals for the entire corps. Carter has been appointed as Program Coordinator, a new position responsible for the team managing show design, costuming and storyboarding, as well as facilitating communication between music and percussion[…]

Music City Drum Corps has awarded its inaugural Finis Sparkman Scholarship to Wade Craig of Lebanon, Tenn. Craig is currently a senior at Wilson Central High School and a member of Music City’s color guard. “I nervously auditioned the first time for Music City in 2016 and was ecstatic to be offered a contract,” Craig[…]

Music City’s visual caption head Josh Meyer has one simple goal for the corps’ 2018 season: “Be the best version of Music City that has ever existed.” Meyer returns to Music City for a second year after helping lead the corps to a DCI semi-finalist finish in 2017. “This activity is about world class musicianship[…]

Chris DeBerry returns to Music City in 2018 to serve as percussion caption head for a fourth season. This will mark DeBerry’s eighth season with the corps, having served as a snare tech and battery coordinator before moving into the caption head role. “I love seeing the talent and personalities that show up every year[…]

Music City’s new brass caption head for the 2018 season says he only has one setting, and “that setting is go.” Paris Foreman, who was head of the low brass sections in 2016 and 2017, has been promoted to oversee the horn line, from delivering fundamentals to maximizing individual performances. “My goal for 2018 is[…]

When Elliott Davis learned a family friend was conducting a shoe drive to secure funding for an adoption, he immediately had an idea of how to help. Davis called on the Music City Drum Corps, where in 2013 he aged-out as a member of the front ensemble. “I remember the corps having massive piles of[…]