Alabama Bandmasters Association - Chuck Eady, President Greetings!
Another milestone for ABA was this year’s All-State Festival! The new site and venues were awesome. There were many hands working to make this event such a success. Thank you Tony Pike (site coordinator), and the Mobile band directors (Chester Bean, Tim Beattie, Sid Dedeaux, Will Duncan, Mark Foster, Cody Knerr) for providing and moving percussion equipment for each band.
The All-State Solo Festival was once again a mountain top musical experience. Each year I am amazed at the level of talent and musicianship these students exhibit.
Congratulations to Julia Adams of Mountain Brook High School. She was awarded the
Bandmasters/Photography by Suzanne Scholarship and the Phi Beta Mu Lamar Triplett Scholarship.
We were fortunate to have such an outstanding panel of
All-State
clinicians: Myra Rhoden for the Middle School Band, Sue Samuels for the Blue Band, Elva Kaye Lance with the White Band, and Col. John Bourgeois conducting the Red Band.
As with any new adventure, we are aware of a few areas where we can improve. In order to help the Board of Directors in planning for next year, we will be asking those who attended this event to complete an online survey and provide us with comments and suggestions. Watch your email for this information.
If you were not in attendance, our new ABA Executive Officers are: John
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ABA President Chuck Eady (L) and ABA President-Elect John Cooper (R) with All-State Red Band Conductor Colonel John Bourgeois
May/June 2011 Alabama
Cooper - President, Rusty Courson – Vice-President/President elect, Terry Ownby – Recording Secretary, and Randall Key – Alabama Jazz Educators Representative. Harry McAfee has completed the transition to Executive Secretary and is doing an outstanding job.
We are grateful to our outgoing District Chairmen: Joel Mason – District I, John Bradley – District III, Virginia Price – District V, and Trey Whitman – District VII, and our IAJE Representative Sid Dedeaux. They have all served ABA well.
I hope you are planning on attending our summer conference June 22-23, 2011 at the Hampton Inn and Suites, Orange Beach. Please notice this is a different location from years past. Pre- registration for the conference will be $50.00, after May 20 the registration fee will be $70.00. The Board and Music Selection Committee will be meeting on June 21, our meeting and clinics will be June 22 & 23 with our
annual MPA Adjudicator Clinic on the afternoon of June 22. This is a great ‘family oriented’ conference and I encourage you to attend. There is a link on the ABA web site you can use to reserve your rooms, http://www.
alabamamea.org/bandmasters/index.htm. Our group code is ABM.
The 2012 AMEA Conference will again be held in Montgomery January 19-21 at the Renaissance Hotel. For more information, go to the AMEA web site (
http://www.alabamamea.org/index.ht m).
All-State 2012 will be back in Mobile April 12-14 at the Mobile Renaissance Riverside, The Mobile Convention Center, and the Mobile Civic Center. Make plans to attend!
These are exciting times for the ABA. It has been an honor to serve as your President. I look forward to seeing what the future has in store for us. I hope you have a successful end of the year and a restful summer.
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