Making A Difference In Students’ Lives: I hope I’ve instilled a level of discipline with the band that helps them make better decisions and be better people throughout their lives. I hope I can lead them to be better friends, better spouses, and great citizens.
Most Important Lesson Learned: Never say Never! You have to take one day at a time, be prepared, and make the most of the moment.
American National Band Director of the Year
Mr. Bobby Patrick was chosen as the 2012 National Band Director of the Year by the National Association for Music Education and the US Army on January 5th in an award ceremony held in San
2012 U.S. Army All-
On April 27th, 2011, a massive EF-5 tornado tore through the small community of Phil Campbell, Alabama, killing 26 residents. The high school was hit, with the band room taking a direct hit, losing its entire music library, the entire band facility and approximately 90% of instruments and equipment were destroyed. Through the donations of hundreds of individuals and many corporations through the Facebook page “One Brick at a Time” and grants from Warner Music and the Glee Give a Note Competition, the band has received approximately $225,000 in monetary donations, which has brought the band program back from the brink of extinction to a functional entity once again.
NAfME President-Elect Nancy Ditmer,
National Band Director of the Year Bobby Patrick, and General Freakley, U.S. Army
Antonio’s Alamodome in conjunction with the US Army All American Bowl.
Mr. Patrick is in his 16th year as a band director and his 11th year as director of bands at Phil Campbell High School and Elementary School in Phil Campbell, Alabama. During his tenure the band program has tripled in size. The program has consistently received Superior ratings at the Alabama State and District Concert Festival and has received numerous Best in Class and Best Overall Marching Awards. The band program has grown to add a jazz program and a winter guard and percussion program. The Phil Campbell Band Program has produced many All Area, All District and All State band members through the years, including producing two band directors.
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“The Army has a long, proud history of producing great leaders and outstanding musicians,” said John Myers, Director of Strategic Communications, Marketing and Outreach, U.S. Army Accessions Command. “Mr. Patrick exemplifies both of these traditions, providing great leadership to young student-musicians. We congratulate him on being recognized as Band Director of the Year and thank him for all he does to make young Americans stronger, as musicians and as people.” The award was added to the U.S. Army All-American Marching Band program as part of its efforts to acknowledge the contribution of music education to the development of America’s youth.
Mr. Patrick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s in Music Education from the University of North Alabama, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He is a member of NAfME, the Alabama Music Education Association, the Alabama Bandmasters Association, the Northwest Alabama All Area Band Association (where he served as treasurer for 5 years) and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He lives with his wife Jodie and his daughter Kaitlyn (who aged out in 2011 as a member of the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps Color Guard) in Tuscumbia, Alabama. They are members of Our Lady of the Shoals Catholic Church where Bobby and Jodie
Selected for Lutheran Music Summer Music Academy Faculty
teach 7th and 8th grade Sunday school classes.
For more than 30 years, the Lutheran Music Program in Minneapolis, Minn. has been proud to employ many talented string players as faculty for our annual Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival (LSM) in Decorah, Iowa. This summer, we here at the Lutheran Music Program are very proud to have hired not one, not two, but three Tuscaloosa, Alabama area musicians for our string faculty. As it turns out, they are all related! Samuel, Sarah and Caroline Nordlund constitute three-quarters of the string faculty for LSM 2012, and we couldn’t be more excited about it. With community as a core pillar of our mission at LSM, we are excited to make this summer a family affair.
Three Nordlunds
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