Week of October 22
Posted 10.25.07– Thoughts: What a week…what a season! We had the show that everyone was talking about ….the Jenison performance was the way we wanted to end the season…with a great show! It was up to the panel to determine the placements and caption awards. Taking best Marching award and scoring the highest in Visual Effect was phenomenal. The percussion missed winning the caption by just .1! Can’t get any closer than that.

“Dance Revolution” The Jenison Invitational!
Posted 10.20.07– Well…what a weekend! Two great performances and two different types of judging panels and very interesting results? As we have told the students, the success for this band at these competitions really depends on the mix of the judging panel…..will they all give us credit for the level of difficulty, visual creativity and individual demand of our show? This past weekend they did at Lakeshore…some of the Grandville panelists it appeared lacked a pulse from the lack of comments on their tapes

Week of October 15!
Posted 10.20.07– Notes: We will be the first band 2:15pm in Class A (5 bands in our class) at Jenison. The show will be a battle within our class as well as overall champion. We will meet up with the 240 member Petoskey band and the overall point battle will be a fight in Class A and that strong Otsego band in Class B. It should be very interesting.

Grandville/Lakeshore Invitational
Posted 10.10.07– What a performance this past Saturday afternoon at Kenowa Hills. We were all pleased with the balanced scores and the great comments from the judges. As we have told the students, the success for this band at these competitions really depends on the mix of the judging panel…..will they all give us credit for the level of difficulty, visual creativity and individual demand of our show? This past weekend they did

Grandville/Lakeshore Invitational
Posted 10.10.07– Notes: We are the past Grand Champion of each of these shows….a very tough act to follow. We will be the final band in Class A (5 bands in our class) at Grandville and the final band at Lakeshore. The Grandville show will be a battle within our class as well as overall. We will meet up with the 240 member Petoskey band. The Lakeshore show will be a battle for overall points….trust me, it won’t be a walk in the park.

“Dance Revolution” Kenowa Hills- “Knight Time Classic” Invitational
Posted 09.25.07– Better, better, better! What a performance last Friday for “Senior Night.” It was the first time we performed Moon Dance & part of Thriller at a football game…we think the show is finally starting to click….and just in time to get ready for our first competition!

Week of September 24!
Posted 09.23.07– Kenowa Hills Week-“Dance Revolution”- PC ‘07

Camp Meeting Information! – “Dance Revolution”
Posted 08.24.07– Thoughts: What a GREAT camp week and the two rehearsals this week have been fantastic! Great work ethic by all and we are putting some of Moon Dance on the field tonight! We should have a commendable amount of the show on the “sacred turf” of McCamley by the 30th!

Camp Meeting Information! – “Dance Revolution”
Posted 08.12.07– Thoughts: What a fantastic Pre-Camp this week….we have such a cool, exciting and unusual show! The kids have been absolutely wonderful and they are learning at such a fast pace! After last season and winning 3 Grand Championships, we have huge shoes to fill. Again, we will be the smallest band in Class A, but great things come in small packages as proven last season!

2007 Mid-July & Camp Newsletter – “Dance Revolution”
Posted 07.18.07– We are well into the writing stages of the new “Dance Revolution” show for this fall. The show, will premier two compositions that have not ever been on a marching field before…..City Shuffle and Wedding Dance. Works being arranged by Ibe are the following: “City Shuffle”, “Wedding Dance”, the “Roxanne” tango from Moulin Rouge, “Moon Dance” (Michael Buble version) and of course “Thriller” which premiered 25 years ago!

2007-08 Yearlong Band Registration Invoice
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2007 July & Pre-Camp Newsletter – “Dance Revolution”
Posted 07.16.07– We are well into the design stages of the new “Dance Revolution” show for this fall. It is a program that will feature five styles of dances as well as five distinct music styles….the big surprise for our audience will be the closer which is “Thriller.” Works being arranged by Ibe are the following: “City Shuffle”, “Wedding Dance”, the “Roxanne” tango from Moulin Rouge, “Moon Dance” (Michael Buble version) and of course “Thriller” which premiered 25 years ago!

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Need More Help!!!! Drum Corps International (DCI): Many of the top Drum & Bugle Corps in the country will converge on Waldo Stadium at WMU on Saturday, June 30. The band will be hired by DCI to work the evening (selling programs, gate workers, water station…..). It was a GREAT paycheck to the bands last year. We have received over $5500.00 the last three years from DCI for working the event