The Patriot Ledger

Music to band program's ears: How schools get $65,000 in new instruments. Kids ecstatic

The nonprofit Music Drives Us donated new musical instruments, valued at over $65,000, to Quincy's middle school band program. The donation will supplement the district's aging instrument stock and ...
The Enterprise

'Our students deserve the best:' BPS to replace aging band instruments, some 60 years old

BROCKTON - Students in the beloved Brockton High School marching band are using instruments that are 20 to 30 years old, said Rebecca Desmond, director of music at Brockton Public Schools. And, she ...
The Hour

100+ new Norwalk, Brien McMahon instruments go to in-need students: 'Equal opportunity'

NORWALK — Over 100 brand new brass, woodwind and percussion instruments are in the hands of the district’s most in-need teenagers in what two of the district’s band directors say is a huge step in ...
Post and Courier

Aiken Concert Band has provided six decades of music for the community

In the winter of 1960 eight amateur musicians gathered in a hangar at the old Aiken Airport for their first rehearsal, burning paper in a potbellied stove to keep warm and creating a concert band that ...