SBO Survey: Travel Destinations
Whether as an end-of-year vacation or a strict performance tour, many music programs take their students on adventures far beyond their school auditorium walls. But...
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Travel On a Shoe String
Travel affords music students and educators the opportunity to venture beyond familiar walls and familial audiences, to gain new experiences while testing young musicians' mettle....
Traveling Through a State of Fear
It seems like our country has gone from one crisis to the next during the past ten years, from terrorism fears after 9/11 to the...
Creating an Inspired Musical Experience: 21 Tips for Success at Festival
Performing at concert festival is an inspiring musical experience for both music students and conductors. Concert festival is more than an assessment event, it is...
Travel Preparation: Planning a Successful Trip
By Amy M. Knopps and Tim Greenwell Traveling together and making music is an outstanding combination to offer your ensemble. The decision to take a...
Inside the National Concert Band Festival
To be quite honest, the idea of performing at the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival (NCBF) did not appeal to me much at...
Festivals and Travel: 20 Destinations for Bands and Orchestras
Every year, your mailbox teems with brochures for music tours and festivals offering the most exciting experiences of your students' lives: unique performance opportunities, educational...
SBOSurvey: Travel Planning
Traveling to an exciting destination in order to perform and/or compete can be an incredibly rewarding experience for both music students and their instructors. In...
Teacher Prep: Travel Planning 101
During my first several years of teaching, I would jump from my bed in the middle of the night and write down another item on...
Festivals and Travel
Fundraising. Booking flights, buses, hotel accommodations. Recruiting chaperones. Organizing the itinerary. Answering multitudinous questions from students, parents and administrators. As if music directors don’t already...