Travel/Festivals

I spent the first weekend of May 2019 in the usual annual place: Band Geek Nirvana.

In the April/May 2018 issue of Choral Director, SBO’s sister magazine, I wrote a piece entitled “The Importance of Our Ancestry,” which discussed the value of knowing the...

Last month, we shared the challenges of changing times and community. In our final installment, we share the legacy that continues through community support.

Last month, we shared how the Joliet program maintains their long tradition. This month, we discuss the challenges of changing times and the successes born of determination and...

There are many companies offering student tours….so how do you choose?

Last month we continued the history of the Joliet Township program and its influences.

Last month we introduced you to the directors of the Joliet Township High School band, and the lineage that links the present with the origin of the program...

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.

As a travel planner, it’s the phrase I always dreaded hearing on the other end of the phone: “The school makes me bid this out.”

My whole life started because of a music trip. Wait...that sounds worse than it is. What I mean is that so many of the incredible things that have...