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2017 7th Regiment “As the Sun loved the Moon”: Opening impact 

Hi y’all!! I’m currently working at one job (two soon) and I’m a full-time Music Education Major at college! I have the opportunity to march with Open Class Corps 7th Regiment, but I unfortunately can’t pay for my fees all by myself. I’ve been sharing my link everywhere but on my Tumblr, so I thought I should give it a try. I will be marching Baritone this summer, so it would mean a lot if you could share this post and share my GoFundMe page, along with donating if you can!! It would mean so much to me; I’ve always wanted to march in DCI since Junior Year of high school (for about three years.. I’m a college freshman). Have a musical day!!

August 2, 2016 Fort Wayne, Indiana “West Coast Lanes”      I felt like I was living some sort of sitcom that day. It was called “Drum Corps Dorm”. The wacky premise was that 7th Regiment, Music City, Raiders, and Les Stentors were all put up in the same dorm at the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, IN.      This is the story of the second worst day of my drum corps career.     We got to the college at about 2 AM, but weren’t able to move into the dorms until about 3, when we were all handed keys. I think I was the last person in so I took a room to myself. The only bed was on the top bunk so I jumped up on it, when the frame slid off and down onto my foot, since I had failed to realize that the beds were not held together by pegs. And this was only 4 AM!     Wake up was at 7, and we hopped on buses to take us to the rehearsal site. And when I say this rehearsal site was just a field across the street from a dead bowling alley (pictured, along with 2016 baritone Tom “West Coast”), I mean it in the most sincere way possible. It was about 92 and humid that day and the staff was just going nuts on us. There must have been so few rehearsal sites in Fort Wayne that Raiders were sharing the field with us down on the other end, so there were two rehearsals going on at once. I tried to tune into 7th, but Raiders were doing my favorite classical piece, “Fearful Symmetries” by John Adams, and I wanted to hear how they did it. I think rehearsal was so tough that everyone kind of formed support circles at lunch after it.     I was determined to have the best run of my life that night, that no matter what happened during the day, whether it be the hard PT, getting hit in the head by a trumpet, or getting into an argument with a tuba player about some small thing (hey, it was a looooooong day and everything was getting to everyone), I would have an amazing show. Things went well, until the helix in the closer. Wouldn’t you know, I ran into that same tuba player, and my mouthpiece went flying out and my leadpipe bent. I couldn’t necessarily go back for it, so I just finished out the show with no mouthpiece. I was incredibly disappointed in myself, but after a chat with the baritone tech and making good terms with the tuba player, everything turned out well in the end. The dorm stuff afterwards was cool too, we basically went room to room having random glowstick dance parties.    Band and Drum Corps are funny though, in that these are the days you’ll remember the most.

7th Regiment, 2017.

"Dying, A Short Blooper Reel About Colorguard" A cheerful conglomerate of embarrassing uncut footage from "Living, A Short Film About Colorguard"

7th Regiment guard-wrapped mellophones

Nights like that are the ones I miss most. A long day of hard work, lots of sweat, and getting better, ending with an amazing sunset, some rain, and an all around great end to the day. This picture doesn't even begin to describe how beautiful the sky looked, and it missed the rain starting to come down, but this picture and that night will forever leave a mark in my mind. One of my "wow, this all is so worth it" moments throughout the season.