The Marching Arts Podcast: Recent Episodes
Harrison and James
We discuss all things marching arts with scheduled guests. High School Marching, College Marching, DCI, WGI and everything in between!
BOA is back! We cover what BOA is and will follow along for the entire season providing recaps and commentary.
College Football is already back. We take a look behind the scenes to discuss how a college marching band operates on a gameday. What is different for your school?
You know what reddit is right? Come join us as we review the top posts in the r/Marchingband subreddit. Pull up the sub and follow along as we judge the memes and relate to them.
Today we sat down with Christian Stephanos, band director in Kenai, Alasksa to discuss all things marching band. You're probably thinking "wait, you can have marching band in Alaska?" The answer is yes indeed my young Padawan. Sit back and listen as we discuss all things drill writing, rehearsal etiquette and pacing in today's episode.
Congratulations to everybody who marched DCI this year. We discuss the 3 days of finals and the cuts. We chose our favorites and settled out bet from the beginning of the season. The season is always over so fast but I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
Harrison and James have a candid discussion about the world of technicians and clinicians in the Marching Arts world. How do you become one? How to NeTwOrK (get used to this word); How to be a professional; How to earn a call back and many more topics are discussed in this week's episode.
It's Finals Week already?! Where did the time go? Was COVID really a thing? These scores are sky high before we have 3 days of grueling competition. Good luck to all corps and we can't wait to see the final scores for the top 3 as well as who makes final 12!
Do you remember your first game? What about your first parade? We all know we remember our first competition. Come and reminisce with us about all the firsts for the Marching Arts!
Hey everyone, DCI is quickly coming to a close while we start to see 3 groupings fighting for 1st, 7th and 12th! Check before you go to rehearsals as many corps are closing to the general public as they fight to stay healthy before finals. We hope to see you at the Southeastern Championship tomorrow!
This week we had on Kaelyn Putnam to discuss the judging of bands during competitions. We also go on some tangents about budgets and branding but overall try to stay on the topic of competitions especially BOA, and US Bands with some DCI sprinkled. Hope you enjoy!
What a clash of the titans this week. We finally saw the East Coast and West Coast corps meet in the Midwest and we saw some really interesting scoring happen. Will these score difference continue through the rest of the season?
This one time Harrison and James talk and reminisce about Band Camp. Do people even get the reference anymore? Anyways, we share our likes and dislikes, and the differences between college and high school band camps while exploring the lasting effects band camp will have on the rest of the marching season.
We're almost halfway through the DCI season already! We welcome Troopers to the tour and look ahead to seeing Genesis join soon. We weigh the pros and cons of competing as often as possible versus maybe only every 5 days. We talk about COVID impacting the season while looking forward to the Midwest portion of the season where the East coast and West coast Corps meet for the first time.
Today Harrison and James talk all about parades, our experiences in parades, the different formations and music, and the troubling and unfortunate trends that are appearing.
This week we discuss the top scores from this past week and our overall favorite things for the beginning two weeks!
What's in your head? In this relaxed episode for the holiday, we attempt to hash out which sections would survive a zombie apocalypse, or even which section started it! Watch your step in this hot take minefield. Do you agree or disagree with us, let us know in the comments!
Our thoughts on the first week of DCI being back and what we look forward to seeing this holiday weekend!
Today we sat down with Juliana Thomas, a member of the 2016 Boston Crusaders and discussed all things DCI. We learn her origin story and how she came to know and join DCI while having frank discussions about the good and ugly of the tour. We also have an open dialogue of how DCI can capture a larger audience and also what they should do with the age out limits. Hope you enjoy!
Before the season starts today June 24th, we try to predict the drum corps who will make finals, the podium finish and the caption winners. Hold us accountable at the end of the season!
Do you want to meet some boomers who are trying to start a thing? Do you want to geek out about your favorite corps? Come hang out with us at DCI Atlanta July 30th!
We are starting a weekly review of all things DCI for the entire season, soup to nuts. Come listen to us give recaps and brag about our favorite corps and shows!
We met with Dr.Meals, Associate Professor at Houston University to discuss the history of marching techniques and our preferences on what we like to see in each level of the Marching Arts.
We sat down with Ethan David, former drum major at Kennesaw State University and Spirit of Atlanta to discuss leadership, DCI and drum majoring. We also address the terrible events that transpired at SoA this past year and how it continues to plague DCI.
In this first episode, we try to cover all the bases for the marching arts. Listen to us attempt to define the industry and attempt to create some hot takes and what will happen in the future!
Come join us on an incredible journey to discuss all things Marching Arts! We discuss why this podcast exists and the ins and out of how it will operate. There won't necessarily be any content, but if you care about lore, give this intro a listen.